I've never seen a white paper that says either. For ease of disaster recovery, I'd leave them separate if you have the hardware. You'll want to fix your problem, rather than sweeping it under a rug. In ESM, in the properties pages of your server, Directory Access tab, are all the servers correct? Use DSADIAG to find out what controllers are available; that'll help you troubleshoot. It'll be worth your while to actually find out what's going on and fix it.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Serafin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, July 08, 2002 8:02 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Front-End DC Subject: Front-End DC All, I have read and heard some conflicting information (surprise). We are having a problem with our Exchange servers contacting our DCs. All of the servers are on the same LAN connected using 3com switches, we are using VLANs, but again all servers are on the same VLAN. We get numerous messages in the event logs that state the DC or the GC could not be contacted, but I can reach them through other network services, it seems only the exchange services can't. The real question is whether or not I should make one of our front-end (OWA) exchange servers a DC? Is there any harm in doing this? I have read white papers that say you should have at least one Exchange-DC and others that say never make an Exchange server a DC. Any ideas or experience with Exchange/DC hybrids? rick _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
