I completely agree with Gil's comment. Let KCC to handle the BH selection. Otherwise you have to manually select the BH server(s). You can manually select more than one BH servers if you want.
Santhosh Sivarajan MCSE(W2K3/W2K/NT4),MCSA(W2K3/W2K/MSG),CCNA,Network+ Houston, TX On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:52:41 -0700, Gil Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good reason to NOT let the KCC pick the BH for you automatically? > That way you get some failover if it craps out for some reason. Otherwise > you'll have to watch the DC constantly to reset the BH to make sure > replication continues to work. In Windows 2003, the KCC is pretty good about > picking the best server as a BH. > > -gil > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cliffe > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Bridgehead in a single-server site > > > Hi guys, > > Just curious...any opinions on denoting a server as a bridgehead in a > site where it is currently the only defined server? We were thinking that > it then wouldn't be necessary down the road when other DCs are added. Is > there any harm in this? Is there any good in this? ; - ) > > (Forest and domain functional levels are Win2003) > > -DaveC > Reuters CIO Infrastructure > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com > > To find out more about Reuters Products and Services visit > http://www.reuters.com/productinfo > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be > the views of Reuters Ltd. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
