My current gig, we have a distributed 650 site hub/spoke environment. We're gradually rolling DC hardware out to these sites as we get them into our enterprise forest. A remote location here can be anywhere to a couple hundred objects (users and computers) to approaching ten thousand (users and computers combined). Every site has one to two T1s connecting it back to the hub which is the WAN link and Internet. Some sites have Outlook users as well (most of the remote users just use OWA).
There will easily be hundreds of DCs out there in a couple years. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:15 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations "you think you have enough DC's" Probably would depend on the remote vs. local campus environment, I suppose! :o) Company that I was just with had over 100, but we had high demand for redundancy in over 50 remote sites supporting anywhere from 200 to ~1200 production users at each site. Given that we maintained two domains (one for support staff and one for the production workers) it's easy to get there in a highly distributed, international environment. But, that's just me.... ;o) Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations MOM 2005, and do you think you have enough DC's? ;-) Mark -----Original Message----- From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:46:44 To:<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Subject: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations I work for a large enterprise company running w2k3 in 2003 mode with the expectation the main user domain will hold 150K users. Currently has about 80 DCs. We finally have funding to buy some AD specific monitoring tools. I am looking for an application(s) that will tell us when AD is not functioning as it should in a simple screen and email us. Would like to be able to bench mark systems. Will tell us when someone changed a piece of the infrastructure (Auditing) Would like to have the install done in about a week and be proficient in about a month. I need a system I do not have to spend a lot of time with, and will tell me when something wrong/changed. anyone have any good suggestions ? Thanks, You guys are great! M. Lunsford List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/