All this GC talk makes me want to ask the following question - what is the relationship between a non-zero priority value put on a GC SRV record and the output from a "getGClist" call? I have a new DC that I need to make a GC to avoid an NTDS 1419 error on one my other DCs (see below) but I don't want any clients to query it. Will the non-zero Priority value be enough? This DC is both a Global Catalog and the Infrastructure Update master. These two roles are incompatible. If another machine exists in the domain, it should be made the Infrastructure Update master. The machine CN=NTDS Settings,CN=Server4,CN=Servers,CN=West,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=PRODOM,DC=com is a good candidate for this role. If all domain controllers in this domain are Global Catalogs, then there are no Infrastructure Update tasks to complete, and this message may be ignored. TIA, Mike Thommes
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe Sent: Fri 9/23/2005 11:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] global catalog discovery / Outlook XP If outlook is configured to use nearest GC I believe it simply falls back to whatever the OS says to use. Check to see if nltest /dsgetdc:forestrootdomain /gc matches up with the Exchange server you use for AB/NSPI ops from outlook. Obviously you could start a network sniffer and see what happens when outlook fires up as well. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] global catalog discovery / Outlook XP Dear all, i have been away from the list for absolutely ages but i need to go over an issue of GC discovery with Outlook XP that need some help on. this may be regarded as OT to this list, but have posted on an MS Outlook newsgroup site with nothing back so i hope this post to be in order. i recall what ended up as a trilogy many months ago on a similar topic but need to get fairly specific information on the mechanisms used by Outlook XP to locate a GC server. there was much discussion on the configuration of Outlook to use local GC discovery (by way of the CLOSESTGC reg value) but on the basis of this configuration can anyone elaborate on the mechanism that Outlook configured as such uses to locate a GC. as i understand the MS documentation, this registry value disables the 'referral' that the client gets (presumably from DSACCESS / DSPROXY). as such it must then have its own mechanism - THIS IS WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN - we have attempted loading the SRV RR's (ldapsrvpriority) so the discovery process is loaded towards a particular GC, but this does not seem to prevail as always assistances gladly received. GT 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/ 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/ 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/
