What I would recommend is to get rid of the bridgehead server and setup site links for each site to your hub site. Let the KDC control all the replications links. Enable change notification on each site link.
________________________________ From: Travis Krampy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:53:34 AM Subject: Re: NTDS Replication Schedule 10 sites, 14 DC's (1 DC in each site, 4 in the main site), 1000 users, 1 DC per site, except for the main site which has 4. I have one DC as a bridgehead, this is the only DC that is handling all site replication to the remote sites "mck1012" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] How large is your forest? How many sites? how many dc's? how many users? how many dc's per site? are you using site links? are any dc's used as a bridgehead? ________________________________ From: Travis Krampy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:40:30 PM Subject: Re: NTDS Replication Schedule Connection speed varies from DSL to T-1 speeds. sometimes many changes are being made daily (new users, etc...), but mostly from the main site and replicated to the other sites. "mck1012" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What is your connection speed at the remote sites. And how often are changes being made. I would look into enabling change notification on the site links. I have over 50 DC's in my forest with about 48 sites and the convergence time is about 2-3 minutes. To enable change notification on a site link 1. In ADSI Edit, expand the Configuration Container icon and then expand CN=Configuration,DC= ForestRootDomainName and CN=Sites. 2. Expand the CN=Inter-Site Transports container, and then click CN=IP. 3. In the details pane, right-click the site link object whose options attribute you want to change, and then click Properties. 4. In the Select a property to view box, click options. 5. If the Value(s) box displays <not set>, in the Edit Attribute box, type 1 for the value (bit 0=1). If the Value(s) box contains a value, you must derive the new value by using a Boolean BITWISE-OR calculation of the existing value and the value that enables the replication change you are making. Then convert that value to an integer. Therefore, if a value is set, convert the integer value to a binary value and OR that value with the value 0001. Then convert the results back to an integer and type the value in the Edit Attribute box. For example, if the existing decimal value is 4, that value is equal to 0100 in the binary system. The value that enables change notification is 1, or 0001 in binary. The OR operation combines 0 OR 0 = 0, 0 OR 1 = 1, 1 OR 0 = 1, 1 OR 1 = 1. Therefore, the following OR calculation computes the binary value: 0100 (existing value) 0001 (value that enables change notification) 0101 (adds enable change notification to the existing setting) The binary value 0101 converts to the digital value 5. For information about binary calculations and converting binary values to digital values, see Windows 2000 Server Help. 6. Click Set and then click OK. ________________________________ From: Travis Krampy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:39:53 PM Subject: NTDS Replication Schedule Hi I was wondering if anyone had any advise on setting up NTDS replication schedule in ADSS. I have a main site, and 10 remote sites. I have 4 Domain controllers at the main site, and 1 domain controller at each remote site. I know that you can set the replication schedule for none, 1x an hour, 2x an hour, 3x an hour or 4x an hour. I was planning on having my local site replicate to the remote sites 1 time per hour and my local site replicate to the local DC's 4x an hour, but I was not sure if this would generate too much traffic. Can anyone please advise? Thanks Travis ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
