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I won’t dispute with you that it’s
possible, but when I created my second site link and attempted to add the CO to
it, it would not add. No error message, just no effect either. Of course
now that I go back and try it again, it works perfectly. I thought it was
rather odd that that wouldn’t be possible. Oh, and for the person who suggested
disabling the KCC, I’d be glad to, but that’s the first time I’ve
found an article telling how. Thanks for all the help, Drew Burchett United Systems & Software Ph: (270)527-3293 Fax: (270)527-3132 From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I too would suggest you set all DCs to be
GCs. In an env with a distributed Exchange design, this is highly
recommended (by me, anyway). Secondly, a site may participate in more
than one site link. If this were not true, then hub and spoke designs would not
be possible :/ e.g. "London-Paris" and
"London-Frankfurt" site links both contain site ' neil From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Burchett I’ll have to look up how to set the
costs on the links. That may very well solve my problem. The part
that is making Exchange so slow is the System Attendant service. Every 2
minutes it will log Event 1042: “Metabase Update failed to read the
Configuration namespace property from the domain controller. Error code
is 80040a01.” This goes on for a couple of hours until it finally
succeeds in reading whatever it needs and the service starts. Then, and
only then, can I start the rest of the Exchange services. I attempted to place all the branch
offices in different sites and use site links to determine which of these would
replicate with which, but I quickly found out that a site can only belong
to one site link, and that pretty well shoots trying to make everything link
back to the CO. I did manage to find an article on Microsoft’s web
site about hub and spoke topology, but it focused strictly on determining how
many domain controllers you need at each location and formulas for determining
how much information will be transferred compared to existing line speed.
Not one word about how you’re supposed to implement hub and spoke, or how
you’re supposed to keep the KCC from completely screwing it up once you
do. Thank you for the information, Drew Burchett United Systems & Software Ph: (270)527-3293 Fax: (270)527-3132 From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF
NASIC/SCNA Why dont you make the domain controller at
the branch office with the Exchange Server a Global Catalog? Also why not
set the cost on the links if you have not already? You can also set the
logging level higher in exchange so you can see whats taking so long to come
online. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Burchett I have a client that I’m having trouble setting up
Active Directory topology for. The layout: 1 Central office with two domain controllers, 1 Global
Catalog, T1 connection 5 Branch offices with 1 domain controller and DSL or Cable
connections. 1 Branch office with 1 domain controller that is also an
Exchange Server, on a T1. All the offices are connected to the central office through
a VPN maintained by a Cisco PIX at each location. They are not directly
connected to each other. When I originally set this up, I pointed all the
machines to the main DNS server at the central office. However, if the
VPN or the T1 went down, they were not able to access the internet and since
they use a third-party application host, this is critical for business.
To alleviate this problem, I installed DNS on each of the branch office
computers. This worked fine until Exchange 2003 was introduced into the
picture. Since all of the sites now register and replicate their DNS
information, the slowest sites always end up at the top of the list of name
servers. In addition, the KCC is always attempting to create links
between the Exchange server and all the other sites besides the central
office. Thus, whenever I have to restart the Exchange server, it takes
several hours for it to properly start up. I assume that this is because
it is attempting to retrieve DNS information and AD information from the
slowest links rather than the CO, with which it can readily communicate.
What I would like to do is set up a topology so that all the branch offices are
replicating ONLY with the CO and the Exchange server will ALWAYS get its
information from the CO and nowhere else. However, first, I don’t
know how to accomplish this, and second, I don’t know if this will
actually solve the problem or not. Any thoughts or suggestions on how to
make this better? Drew Burchett United Systems & Software Ph: (270)527-3293 Fax: (270)527-3132
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