RE: [ActiveDir] Site Links

[Gil Kirkpatrick]

Adeel,   Ah, the old "best practices" question. You'll get a lot of responses regarding the whole concept of "best practices" which will ultimately say "it depends" :) For instance, what sort of administrators do you have? Are they experienced, well educated in AD, reliable, etc? What's your organizations risk tolerance? Threat profile? Budget? Maturity?   To be more helpful, you'll need to fill in some blanks. First off, whats the issue you're trying to fix? Is there an operational problem? Generally speaking, if you have the right site links in place, they don't need to be changed unless the underlying topology changes, or unless a DC goes down. Or is the problem that you don't know if your topology is right to being with?   That all being said, some "best practices" which might or might no apply to your situation.   1. Monitoring DCs is critical for a multi-site AD, and especially so for topologies with manual site links. 2. Monitoring replication is also critical 3. If your'e using WS2003, its best to let the KCC sort out this sort of thing and not muck it up manually. There are few situations that the KCC will not handle well in WS2003 AD. 4. Implement strict change control on your topology. The change process should include justification for change, review by someone who understands how replication and KCC work, implementation, and auditing of the final result, including some testing to ensure that the change actually does what you think. 5. Monitoring DCs and replications is really important. 6. And be sure to monitor...     HTH,   -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adeel Ansari Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Site Links AD Experts,   Is there any best practices for creating and managing site links? The problem I am facing where I have many hub and spoke sites with well over 20 site links. What is the best procedure to fix this issue?   -Adeel