Frank,
We currently have a similar topology to yours. All of my
DC's are GC's. There is no disadvantage to this regarding replication
traffic as you are a single domain. I would continue using your current
model of every DC being a GC.
Regards,
Dave Chianese
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:19 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
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