Hello Everyone, I am in the process of extending an existing AD design to encompass locations in the South America. The locations in the SA are all connected to the hub location(NY) via VPN. The branch offices are currently running a mixture of single NT4 domains with no trusts setup back to the hub location NT4 domain or small workgroups.
The hub location is currently migrating to AD and would like to bring SA into the
fold. Some questions that have been raised so far are around domains vs sites.
Should these SA locations be sites connected to the hub location AD domain, should
they be their own domain, should we create one SA domain and have all the smaller
sites connect to it(however, the sites connect directly to the hub(NY) and not each
other).
Thanks!
Rob
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Revising Site Design
Hello All,
I'm revising our global site design, to further reduce DCs and get more
efficient use of bandwidth. I'm finding that we have a number of physical
sites that do not necessarily have enough users to constitute a DC and who
also have high-speed connections to multiple other locations that do need
and have DCs.
I know that the bulk of design documentation says to create a site only if
there will be a DC located at that location, but what about to control
logon traffic? Having a site defined in AD for the respective subnets
would allow me to setup costs and correspondingly control where these
locations would attempt to authenticate as well as better controlling
DFS...etc.
Since I haven't run across any best practice documentation noting this
scenario, I was wondering if there are others on this list who have come
pondered or actually done this.
Any nfo or general recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Eric Jones, Senior SE
Intel Server Group
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