Does IIS 7.5 server farm need to be on a Domain? 2008 R - web-farm

We are using Server 2008 R IIS 7.5 with an SQL DB on the backend. At the moment the system is working fine with three of the servers configured in a load balancing farm while communicating data back to the SQL DB. All of these servers are free standing on their own subnet with a common admin and password. The question is… is there an advantage for making one server a PDC and creating their own domain and joining the rest of the remember servers to the domain?

I investigated this when setting up a similar web farm and all of the resources I queried said that for security reasons you should definitely not join web servers in a DMZ with a domain on a private network.
Most resources also suggested that it wasn't a great idea to create a separate domain in your DMZ for the web servers.
So I opted to do the same thing and just have stand alone servers that share admin username and password and I've been running them for over a year and have no regrets about my decision.

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How do you configure a domain name for openfire server? Do I just buy a domain and set it as my XMPP domain?

so I am setting up a server for a messaging application which is being developed. I am using openfire server for this which I have installed and running on a PC. Right now, the xmpp domain is set to my computer name and server is working on my network, but obviously as its a local name it cannot be accessed from the outside.I am able to access the server from multiple computers on the same network using the Spark messaging client to test the server. So to be able to access my XMPP server from devices outside my network, do I just buy a domain name and set it as my XMPP domain in Openfire settings?
To answer your question, yes, with the following caveats:
You will either have to host the DNS server yourself or have the DNS provider serve the records for you.
A domain must have a static IP to address to point to. A home or a typical small business Internet account does not include a static IP (some providers actively prevent home accounts from serving web pages/services).
You must also configure your firewall to allow a mapping to the internal server.
I would recommend using an external provider to handle the network and hosting services for your program.

Tableau Server Could not locate unexpired trusted ticket local network

I have two servers , Server #1 one hosted in the office using the office network (this hosts the tableau server on ubuntu server) and the other server Server #2 sitting in another collocated network. The web application is hosted in server #2 and the tableau dashboards are embended on the web application.
When I try to access the application from another public network , the dashboards are working very well, however when I try to access the dashboards from the office network (which hosts the tablueau server ), I get the following error =>
That error is generally caused by one of two issues
The IP Address of Webserver hosting the IFrame was not whitelisted under Trusted Authentication in TSM or Add Trusted IP Addresses or Host Names to Tableau Server
or
The trusted user does not exist on the Tableau server and/or the username does not match what was passed to the webserver from your web application hosting the Iframe.
We have trusted_ticket_expiry set to 240 minutes.
https://kb.tableau.com/articles/issue/changing-the-expiration-timeout-of-trusted-tickets

Hosting two different servers with one domain

I'm trying to host web pages using Win Server 2016. Currently, I have Jira and my personal web (IIS) servers. Using AWS, I currently have "myec2.com:port1" and "myec2.com/port2" running fine. And I'm planning to buy a domain "myname.com" to be connected to "myec2.long.name.com"
What I hope to do is "myname.com/jira" and "myname.com/mypage" or "jira.myname.com" and "mypage.myname.com" can redirect to Jira server and the IIS server. Is there a way I can achieve this goal?
Thanks in advance.
If you buy a domain like myname.com you will be able to configure any number of sub-domains such as jira.myname.com or mypage.myname.com as you like.
Usually what you would do is point those sub-domains to your server's IP then handle requests to those domains by setting up a web server (like apache or nginx) and configuring a virtual host (apache) or a server block (nginx) for each one of those sub-domains.

I'm transferring my domain to Azure. I need to have the ability to use my #url.com email addresses

I'm currently using 1&1 and they have a system for managing emails. I need to make sure I don't lose access to my business site's email addresses. What can I do?
When you have application running in Windows Azure and you want to access your application with real domain name i.e. yoururl.com you actually don't transfer your domain. Your domain stick with the same domain registrar whoever it is (in this case 1&1) however you just use DNS or CNAME setup in Windows Azure application so your domain name point to actual application running on Windows Azure.
As far as I know if you are just setting your domain name via DNS/CNAME, pointing to Windows Azure application, there is no changed to your domain and it will intact with your domain registrar and will not impact anything else.
At last, I do have a question what are you doing with Windows Azure as you don't have better understanding about how it is impacting your when you are making decision, so you may need little more info/knowledge about what and why you are using Windows Azure and how it is going to impact your current setup.
Azure has no email system equivalent to that bundled with web hosting by many entry level providers (including, presumably, 1&1). You are either going to need to continue hosting your email with your existing host, or transfer your email domain to someone who offers pure email hosting. Another option might be to run your own mail server on a Windows Azure VM, but according to this post, this isn't yet possible due to networking restrictions: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/WAVirtualMachinesforWindows/thread/18da4da3-ebf3-48c7-9462-12fa4317175b

GWT RPC Java server with remote Windows authentication

I have the following setup with my GWT Client - Server application:
GWT Client -(RPC)- Server - MSSQL db.
The client is running on various platforms & devices (web application, mobile phones etc..). The java server (and web application files) are hosted on Jetty. MSSQL Database is running on a different server on a different domain.
I need to find a way for the user to authenticate on the domain of the MSSQL DB after which I can allow the client to access to rest of the servers services.
I can pass the username & password pair encrypted to the server but how do I continue from there on? I spent a lot of time figuring that out today, but I just got more and more confused. I did manage to check local authentication with Kerberos on the server, but I need to authenticate remotely to a different domain. Is it even possible without setting up service for that on the remote domain, which I'm trying to avoid?