Look - do what you want. You're obviously not open to hearing why its considered good to keep global catalogs/DCs off Exchange servers. So far, you have argued against every valid point. So go off and do it already. And a few months from now, when you start seeing mail delivery issues because your Exchange/DC/GC boxes are overloaded, you'll understand the recommendations.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Petri [mailto:omatesti@;jippii.fi] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:56 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange 2000 and GC > > > It is great to see the real reasons why I should not do this. I have > always got an answer like: "..in my mind its not a good and MS doesn't > recommends..". > > Just a few comments about the list: > > 1. When you have a real problems they are always quite complexity > 2. agree > 3. if you create a separate site for these GC, then normal user load > doesn't reach these GCs. > 4. Only replication. > 5. agree > 6-7. true ! > > Do I have saw dreams or is it so that in Titanium there will > be somekind > small directory ? > > But many thanks of the list. > > .-Pepi-. > > > You also want to consider the more applications/processes > you run the > > more likely one of them will stop working. This translates into > > downtime. If for some reason your GC stops replicating or answering > > requests and the normal recovery steps don't work, you may have to > > reboot. It is the same for any additional processes you > run on any one > > machine. > > > > To summarize: > > > > Reasons not to have and exchange and a GC on the same machine > > > > 1. Added troubleshooting complexity > > 2. Added DR complexity > > 3. Added CPU load > > 4. Added network load > > 5. Added disk I/O > > 6. Added hot-fix and SP complexity (dealing with interactions of > > hotfixes) > > 7. Domain Controller Security Policy > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
