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active directory deployment in 34 places
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| jailio 2002-02-08, 11:38 am |
| HI
I know that maybe this is not the best place to make this kind of questions but i really need your help.
I need to deploy an active directory infrastructure in more than 34 places. This places are not linked together and the way them use to have any comunication is through
internet. Up to now every place works as individual domain without any relationship between them, but now i need to
change this.
Because i have only one server in every place and the connections are unreliable i took the decision of deploy one unique domain and establish different sites in every place. Because i will work in native mode i decide to install in every site a Global catalog and to avoid the replation traffic during working hours i decide to create schedule to make replications at night.
At the begining i want to create an active directory infrastructure with multiple domains and stablish a central place that will hold the forest root, but when i
read about the fact that you cannot install a global catalog and an infrastructure master in the same machine i change my mind and to change the desing for this that i
just explain to you
Now i am worry about the fact that i will have only one PDC emulator in this unreliable network and i don't know
if i will have some trouble with my decision.
I need advices about this issue, because i need to begin soon my deployment and i am not sure if a took the right
decision.
Jaime Vuelvas | |
| jeff_j_black 2002-02-08, 12:58 pm |
| If you only have one server per domain, then that server will host all of the domain server roles. Make a forest of domains? | |
| Spreck 2002-02-08, 5:05 pm |
| You said, "but when i
read about the fact that you cannot install a global catalog and an infrastructure master in the same machine". You can have them on the same machine but it is not recommended.
The only time a PDC Emulator will come into play is when you have BDC's that are of NT 4.0 (they need to know where the "writeable" copy of the database is). Since you will use Native Mode then you don't have to worry about this issue.
Also, if the connection is unreliable them it is better to use SMTP for your replication of AD rather than IP, but you can try it and see if it should work. It would probably work better to build sites rather than have 34 domains out there, just from an Administrative standpoint.
I hope this helps.
Don | |
| jeff_j_black 2002-02-08, 5:23 pm |
| Can SMTP be used between sites in a domain? I thought it was only between domains. | |
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| MistyRing 2002-02-11, 9:42 am |
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Can SMTP be used between sites in a domain? I thought it was only between domains.
You can use SMTP between sites also. If you think about it, it's a "Site Link". | |
| jeff_j_black 2002-02-11, 3:09 pm |
| But Sites can include more than one Domain? | |
| Spreck 2002-02-11, 3:53 pm |
| Sites can contain multiple domains. Domains can be spread across multiple sites. Sites are for separating your domains(s) because of physical separation (WAN, etc) and you create additional domains for other factors (security, political etc.). | |
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| If your connections are unreliable you would need to use SMTP site links between the sites you have created. Also thats a good point to bring the GC to every site. If there is one DC then don't worry about Infrastructure Master and GC together as it loops when there is more than one DC available. One DC, the both roles can be togeather, thats the exception. Multiple DCs seperate the roles from each other. |
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Go to this site and download the bpaddply.doc it gives you all you need: