Good Morning: Long time lurker, 1st time poster :-) This topic was somewhat covered in a thread initiated by Joe, but I have a follow-up question.
Our scenario: Approximately 6800 users. A Windows 2003 AD design with an empty forest root domain, and 2 child domains, 2 DCs per domain. The bulk of the users will be in one child domain, and there won't be much interaction between the 2 child domains. The root and the main child domain will both be within the data centre in a single site. We will be deploying Exchange 2003 in the main child domain. We are in the lab proof of concept phase, and the question has arisen whether when users attempt to manage DLs once we're in Exchange native mode, if they'll be potentially referred to a GC in the root domain, thus having their modification attempt fail. The time to determine this is now, before we move to the pilot (which involves deploying AD, then deploying the 1st E2K3 server). My initial thought was to simulate a heavy messaging load to DLs (UGs) with Loadsim. Using that approach, though, is there a relatively easy way to determine what GCs are being hit? Or is there a completely different approach I should be taking? Or, is the thoughts of the big brains on this list that this won't be an issue at all? Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated. ADthanksVANCE, Andy Schan Messaging Contractor 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/
