Thanks ken, this is was what I suspected, (multiple DCs) as to why they
did that? Not really sure, they are another girl scout office with no
real IT personnel so I was asked to look and see what is occurring.

Found numerous issues, DFS setup, WSUS not configured, Exchange 2007
messed up, and that was only the first of many items.

I think you have a good point on the LOGONSERVER, so I'll take a gander
at that tonight.

Again, thanks for the input and direction as I begin to open pandoras
box! :)


Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Ken F. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:46 PM
To: Active Directory Admin Issues
Subject: RE: gps applied

Is is *always* the same "other" DC - or is it random DC's upon every
reboot/login (check the LOGONSERVER environment variable) {this assumes
you have more than 2 DC's in your domain}.

What is in DNS for that particular site - is it the server you think or
another server (site coverage issue)?

Does the subnet definition match *exactly* in sites and services as to
what the workstation is using (both the IP range and the subnet mask)?

If the mask is different (say 255.255.255.128 vs. 255.255.255.192) even
though the IP address is correct - and the router is sending the packets
- but that subnet doesn't match exactly what is in AD (this has happened
to us before which is why I bring it up).

You'd have to look it up at Microsoft for the Windows client, but you
can put the workstation boot up processing into a debug/logging mode and
it will show what is going on - as to why the workstation "thinks" it is
in a different site (assuming the subnet is defined correctly and DNS is
correct).


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:31 PM
To: Active Directory Admin Issues
Subject: gps applied


I was monitoring a site over the weekend and noticed that a local subnet
was retrieving the policies from another server in a different subnet.



This site has four subnets and defined in sites, but when I was on the
local subnet I did a gpresult and noticed the client pulled the policy
from a server that is in another state.



What would do this? Bad configuration at the router? Server?



TIA,



Thomas Gonzalez

Technology Manager

Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas

210.349.2404 phone
210.403.1586 DID

210.349.2666 fax

www.girlscouts-swtx.org

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