That's the boat I'm in too - we have an ATM cloud between 4 of our 5 locations with DCs. Since it is a true cloud infrastructure, I've got a single site link for all 4 locations connected to that cloud. Since there's plenty of free bandwidth at this point, maybe I should look at that too...
Let me know what you find out in your testing.
Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:34 PM
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> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication
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> So, you're thinking with ATM between DCs I can crank up the
> holdback timing and pause rates? Neat.....
>
> ;op
>
> Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent replication
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> Cool in that case I would do the same... Also if it is W2K and
> your bandwidth can truly handle it I would turn down the
> timing for holdback and pause between dsa's.
>
> joe
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Diane Ayers
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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
>
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> 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
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> 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
>
>
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> 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
