In a single domain forest you should have all DCs as a GC. Why? There is no additional overhead in terms of replication and/or disk space needed. Only benefits. I would leave it as is cheers, jorge
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Frank Abagnale Sent: Wed 12/14/2005 11:19 AM To: Active Subject: [ActiveDir] Reducing number of Global Catalogs I currently have a single domain (w2k3 FFL) with approx 40 DC's. (1 for every site) They are all configured as GC's. I have approx 3500 users The WAN connection speed ranges from 512k to 2mb. I read somewhere that having every DC as a GC is unnecessary due to the increased amounts of bandwith replication. My network is not exactly the quickest and with the other apps and services I am running e.g DNS, WINS, DFS/FRS, Exchange, Sharepoint etc, This has led me to think maybe I should think about reducing the number of GC's in my forest Does anyone have any views on decreasing the number of GC's to DC's? What would you recommend as a comfortable number of GC's Frank ________________________________ Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/footer/shopping/*http://shopping.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTE2bzVzaHJtBF9TAzk1OTQ5NjM2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFnBHNsawNob2xpZGF5LTA1> This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. 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/
