On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > When I did my AD conference presentations in 2012, Brian Desmond, MBS, Bob > Free and ASB all stated to me that AD is not a full mesh replication > topology. Many of the issues I see when I do AD assessments is that admins > misunderstand that. What they do is create manual connections between all the > supposedly missing connections they believe should exist. > > I believe Bob Free had me put in my speaker notes (that went into the PDF the > attendees received) was "you are NOT smarter than the KCC". > > Define your subnets. > Define your Site topology. > Make sure your DCs are in the correct Site (because most people never did the > first two items).
All DCs in the correct sites, yes. Site topology hasn't changed in like a decade. > Delete all manual connection objects. > Let the KCC do the rest. These last 2 are exactly what I've been doing this week. We used to have manual connections between sites, along with the automatically generated ones. I've deleted the manual ones now ... > Unless you have a really good reason for doing so, NEVER EVER create a manual > connection object. > > If you think you need a manual connection object, please refer to Bob's Rule: > "you are NOT smarter than the KCC". > > Thanks
