I am planning a single forest (one tree) with 2 geographically separate root
controllers of the same domain. There are 100 to 150 remote sites, each
having an equal and separate child domain controller which is part of the
root domain. Some of these sites are on a slow SLIP dial up connection, some
on a slow internet VPN. Fortunately for me each only runs IIS or apache, so
the users in each remote location are only http users, so there are only
admin accounts that are replicated from the root. My concern is about
replication. I want a simple set up like I mentioned above, but some of my
child domains will need to function without communication to the root domain
for extended periods. There will be few changes made to the root controllers
so constant communication is not required, proceedurally. The only changes
will be involved in software distribution, which I am planning to use the
somewhat convoluted internal win2000 software distribution mechanism, rather
than go down the SMS road. I think I'd rather ftp down MSI files and use
terminal server rather than use SMS. Anyway please let me know pitfalls with
replication and slow connections ( I understand about assigning cost
values). I REALLY want to keep the AD structure simple, since the child
domain boxes essentially operate as standalone.
Thanks
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