I'm interested in this too, because everytime I ask the question "do we need a site if there's no DC there?" I get a different answer every time.
Can anyone list specific services that require sites and why they require those sites? Cheers. On 3/31/06, David Adner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not exactly. The point of a site is to help concentrate site-aware type > apps and services so that users access their local/closest resources. > Authentication to DCs (and getting GPOs and login scripts from them) is just > one potential service for this. DFS and SMS are also site-aware. > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > matheesha weerasinghe > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:26 AM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configuration > > > > The whole point of a site is to have a DC in it isn't it? Therefore you > should cleanup the unnecessary sites and associate subnets with sites you > want them to be a part of. The DC locator will only do its job correctly if > DNS is right. DNS will be correct if you maintain a nice sites and services > plan and clean up all other unnecessary records in DNS. > > In my opinion "a" is the way to go. > > M@ > > > On 30/03/06, James Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > Single Windows 2003 Domain. > > I have 5 core sites and 70 branch offices. Each of the core sites host 2 x > dc's and each branch office has a DC. > > The design is legacy from NT4 whereby we had a BDC at each of the branch > offices as they had slow WAN links at the time. During the upgrade, each of > the BDC's were made dc's. Each dc is located in it's own AD Site & IP Subnet > defined. > > Our concerns are that some of these remote dc's are located in insecure > environments, i.e the are just a server sat in an unlocked closet in a > business office environment. > > We've just completed an WAN upgrade and our links are minimum of 1mb to > each of the remote offices. > > This is good news for us, as we can now demote most of the remote dc's > (about 60 of them) > > My question is regarding the cleanup process. We have 75 AD Sites created > with a subnet assigned to each site. Once the demotion process takes place, > will I need to > > a) add the IP subnet to the core site so that the branch office is > serviced by the dc's located there and then delete the old AD Site which no > longer holds a dc. > > b) leave the AD site in existance with the IP Subnet assigned and let the > DC locator service find a DC for the client to authenticate to? (this means > I am left with a load of un-needed Sites in AD..I assume) > > We also use DFS but moving to DFS-R shortly. > > Thoughts anyone? > > Jim > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > 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/
