RE: [ActiveDir] W2K & W2K3 environment.

[Scott, Anthony]

Regarding DNS, ultimately you should really move it to MS AD integrated DNS. You can do something like this: http://truetechsolutions.supersized.org/archives/34-Use-BIND-as-an-AD-DNS-server!!.html Thank You, Anthony Scott   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jitendra Kalyankar Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:38 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] W2K & W2K3 environment.   Company is large and distributed across the globe in around 66 countries. Here is other thing, I just joined the team about say 3 months back and found out many things that need urgent attention to state a few, first was replication which right now is fixed. Not perfect but working okay for the time being. Second is DNS which is a *nix based DNS. What will be the solution for this problem, I can setup a Windows DNS and/or I can put a Read-Only Windows DNS inside each big site.   The list of problems can go on and on. Anyways I have same opinion that we need to fix the current infrastructure first, but making sure that my reasoning is correct.   Sincerely, J       On 12/14/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We went through that a while back. If your current environment is not running properly group policies won't apply correctly. They will be hit and miss as to which workstations they apply to. AD problems usually track back to DNS problems   Fix your current problems first..   Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jitendra Kalyankar Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] W2K & W2K3 environment. Here is scenario that is currently being played in my company. We have W2K AD in place, we are not using GPOs except one or two. Now suddenly they (read managers) realized that we need to implement GPO extensively. There are issues with current AD infrastructure like replication is not proper, DNS etc. And other thing is my company has at least 12 different language that we have to support on Windows XP OS.   Now there are two groups in company one is saying go for fixing the existing infrastructure and second is saying go for W2K3 since the W2K is almost non-existant. My question to list is what would you suggest in this situation. Any insights, inputs are more than welcome. Also I will keep posted about the decision we (read managers) make, we are having a meeting with Microsoft for this but just as heads up I need to understand obvious pitfalls if any. -- Sincerely, Jitendra Kalyankar