Do you have users at the off-site DC locations? Are they active during this time? If so I would leave those DCs up. Being down for a week won't make a difference.
Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 [email protected] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: John Matteson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 07/18/2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Week long shutdown. Sent by: [email protected] None that I can think of. I would thing the restart procedure would be more important. Get the external connection up first, then work inward. In AD, start with FISMO, in the root domain, then down/outward to the branches. Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2013, at 11:37 AM, "Kennedy, Jim" <[email protected] > wrote: We are shutting our data center down for 7 days to repair the HAVAC/Electrical systems. Long story but it needs to be done this way. Since we are a school district and it is summer we are just going to pull the plug on the network and let that summer staff fend for themselves. I have a secondary MX up with a hold and forward. There are 4 offsite DC’s that could be left running, but they will not be able to talk to each other, their connectivity is via the data center. I am thinking shut them down too. Any issues or concerns that come to mind for a week long downtime for AD? ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
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