Background:
- Designing a new global AD
- Designing a new global DFS hierarchy
- Org is very federated with firewalls etc etc
- For various reasons, I suspect we may need to disable transitive bridging of site links (due to firewall rules)
According to this article: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/c238f32b-4400-4a0c-b4fb-7b0febecfc731033.mspx disabling site link bridging can have a detrimental effect upon DFS.
As a result, the article explains how repadmin may be used to disable bridging without affecting DFS, using "repadmin /siteoptions w2k3_bridges_required" [supported by w2k3 sp1 ISTG DCs only]
This looks like a good fit for our requirements but I need a little more info on this new feature:
- Is this a forest wide or site wide change?
- What attribute is changed in AD as a result of the above repadmin command?
- Is the change effective immediately or after a reboot?
- Does this actually disable site link bridging as per my requirement? Is my requirement not met at all? [or is it partially met? :) ]
- Is there further info which describes how this functions 'under the covers'? i.e. what is happening behind the scenes such that bridging is disabled but DFS costing is not affected?
Hopefully I understood the article correctly and haven't asked redundant questions :)
Thanks in advance,
neil
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