Re: SMS 2003 in multiple AD domains (one forest)

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From: Jeff Harbaugh [MSFT] (jeffharb_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:36:08 -0800

When everything is in the same forest you should not have any limitations.
The most important thing is to make sure you lay out your site boundaries
correctly and do not have over lapping boundaries. This would be the only
thing that would cause any issues. Also make sure your SLP is on the central
site so that clients can compare the site boundaries to make the corret
assignment. 

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Thanks,
Jeff Harbaugh [MSFT]
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"Ragnar" <none@all.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello!
>
> I have some questions regarding SMS 2003 in an Active Directory 
> environment, one forest but multiple domains. Using SMS 2003 AD schema 
> extensions and SMS Advanced Security and SMS Advanced Client.
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> Having a SMS 2003 hierarchy with a central primary site and multiple sms 
> primary sites - all in different AD domains but in the same forest. How 
> will the different SMS Advanced Clients discover and find the correct SMS 
> primary site when SMSSITECODE=AUTO? I'm thinking about that the AD 
> information will be stored in /System/System Management containers in the 
> various domains? I know that the SMS site codes is available in Global 
> Catalog, so I guess all this will be handled automatically - both the 
> assignment and roaming? Any limitations when you have SMS Advanced Clients 
> and SMS site systems in different AD domains but in same AD forest?
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>
> The SMS 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide states that if your 
> SMS hierarchy spans more than one AD domain, you must configure the 
> DNS-suffix search order of clients systems to include the DNS suffixes of 
> all domains with SMS clients or servers. Is this due to the SMS clients 
> (including SMS Advanced Client) looking for SMS servers not using the 
> FQDN? I see from a previous post that this also applies to SMS site 
> servers performing discovery.
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> Thanks!
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> /Ragnar
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>

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