[ActiveDir] DC priority

[Douglas M. Long]

Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Ocra

The majority of my outlook clients connect to our “backup” DC, and I am not sure why this is.     Main DC            GC       all FSMO roles              server class Backup DC        GC                                           desktop class     They both have the same weight and priority in the DNS.   The main DC is a much more robust machine with RAID 1 for the OS and RAID 50 (or 05, I forget) for the page file and AD database (versus a desktop machine for the backup DC), so I would like to send the majority of request to it. Is there a reason that most request are going to the backup DC? Would adjusting the weight and/or priority even help? Ideas or suggestions?       This would be the correct reference?             http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Operations/df86810b-9fc5-49b8-a704-d01c042cf460.mspx