Re: Two Global Catalog in one site.

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From: Leif Pedersen [MVP] (leif.pedersenNOSPAM_at_get2net.dk)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 20:37:52 +0200

In active directory sites and services find the NTDS settings and get the
properties, select the global catalog.

You get the benefit that you have fault tolerance of you GC's (if one goes
down exchange server should continue to work).

Leif

"Thomas Niemann" <niemann.thomas@gmnx.de> skrev i en meddelelse
news:eeCvLBdMEHA.2532@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> How can i setup an dc to be a gc? what bennefits/problems will i get?
> Regards
> Thomas Niemann
>
>

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