The biggest concern is not really the replication traffic and wanting to throttle the traffic but trying to localize the authentication. I've turned on change notifications and we'll see how this works. Thanks for the refresher on urgent replication and good point on the bridge head traffic.
Diane > _____________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication > > Urgent replication really isn't... It is urgent queuing of a replication > request in actuality or at least from what I have observed. Basically you > quickly stick a replication request into the queue of all change > notification partners. They process it in the order and priority > received... i.e. it would happen before a previously queued GC partition > replication but after a previously queued domain partition replication. > > You would need to enable change notification between sites to start to see > the urgent queuing and doing that will blow out your replication schedules > and most all benefits of compression. > > HOWEVER, if you were happy with a single site setup, this all would be > fine for you... Note however all traffic will STILL go through the > bridgeheads. You won't set up a large ring like you had within a single > site. > > joe > > > _____________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Greetings > > In an effort to localize our authentication traffic, we recently > implemented a multi-site configuration moving away from our single > mega-site (single domain). All DCs are on high bandwidth links but we are > trying to reduce authentication across the WAN. All inter-site transports > are configured for a maximum replication frequency (15 minutes). > > An assumption on my part (and probably erroneous) is that urgent > replication triggers such as account lockouts will still bypass inter-site > replication schedules and be replicated to all DCs in the domain. We're > getting a smattering of reports that the events such as account lockouts > are not getting replicated quickly. Putting 2 and 2 together, it looks > like urgent replication is not carried between sites. Is my assumption > correct and can I enabled urgent replication between sites? > > Diane
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