Some current uses have been listed, I expect we will see more and more uses coming into play as well as folks move from the just getting AD into place to really taking advantage of it.
One interesting use I have seen of AD Sites was for an intranet web farm that tracked where internal customers were tying in from. They matched all of the logs to the subnet definitions to sites so they knew exactly who the consumers of various sites were. I believe they were using the info for planning purposes. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DC Demotion & AD Site Configuration 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/ 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/
