I'm a little curious too...if you turn off the 'bridge all site links' feature and set up site links from each site to the hub site, the KCC doesn't create connection objects between the DCs in the 'spoke' sites anyway. At least, that's been our experience (single domain). We don't restrict traffic between the spokes, though, so perhaps there's communication going on there that I'm not aware of that would cause KCC errors if we did. It's nice to not have to manually create connection objects if you don't have to... can you enlighten me a bit more about why this approach is not enough ? Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk@;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication Linton, Thanks for answering. No, I don't have any additional suggestions... as I said, I was just curious what your motivation was. I believe the .Net server KCC has some improvements with respect to hub-and-spoke topologies, so you may want to investigate that as well. -gil -----Original Message----- From: Linton Smith (WBTQ) [mailto:GWLLES@;Weston.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:55 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication I can't speak for Joe, but the whitepaper lists a few good reasons. Although we don't have 100 plus sites, I think we'll be doing something like this anyway. Being a large conglomerate with separate operating companies (each separately managed), we're pretty restrictive in our routers. For the most part, each tree in our forest can talk to the root domain, but generally not to DCs in other trees. Even in our own domain, we restrict access from one satellite office to another (although everyone can connect to our hub sites). Low bandwidth is our primary motivation for this. After time, one grows weary of seeing the many resultant KCC errors in the event log, so it seems that managing our inter-site replication manually (to match available routing) would be the best solution. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks, Linton -----Original Message----- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk@;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication Just curious, but why? -gil -----Original Message----- From: Linton Smith (WBTQ) [mailto:GWLLES@;Weston.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechn ol/ad/windows2000/deploy/adguide/adplan/default.asp Linton -----Original Message----- From: Joe.Baird [mailto:Joe.Baird@;kingwoodcable.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication Could someone point me in the direction of a Microsoft whitepaper or an article that details how to create a manual replication model? Meaning I want to turn the KCC off and do all replication manually.. Thx List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
