Had all of them in the same Default IP site link. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Help a AD Sites Noob out.
Did you create the site links? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 7:11 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Help a AD Sites Noob out. Never paid much attention to sites, but now I am going to. I have 12 buildings with dedicated gig fiber back to one of them were the data center is housed. Not a lot of traffic, 10 to 15 percent tops. So never worked with sites to control replication or logon traffic. But now I have a piece of software that is doing a fair number of GC lookups and it would seem that my desktops have decided over the years to all talk to one DC. There are DC’s in each of the five buildings, the 7 smaller ones do not have one. There are currently two all-encompassing subnets, in one site with all the DC’s in that site. So yesterday I decided to make sites. Put in all the subnets for all the buildings, and created 5 sites each with at least one DC, and put the appropriate subnet’s in those sites. It went ugly really fast. Authentication broke enterprise wide, Exchange couldn’t auth and stopped working. For the most part if it involved auth it broke. Nuke the sites and subnets and moved it all back to two /16’s in one site and in about 30 minutes all was well. What did I do wrong?
