Re: Active Directory Suggestions Help Appreciated

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:20:09 +0100

Heh heh.

By default (I believe), when you edit a GPO it will try and edit it in a
single-master fashion (it will go to the PDCe). This behaviour can be
changed however... 

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"rickiez" <rickiez02@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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Here's the odd thing...........they are all already Global Catalog
servers...........what could they be doing every time I try and access
AD information such as editing a GPO?
rickiez wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a client who has 8 sites, but 1 domain.  It seems that whenever
> you try to access anything having to do with AD administration in any of
> the remote locations it takes forever and the network card light is
> flashing like crazy.  This only happens when you are physically onsite
> at a remote location.  If I am at the main office where the GC is and I
> work in a portion of AD that pertains to a remote site or an OU that
> contains users from that site it works fine.  The issue seems to only
> happen when the remote DC is trying to contact something.  I can only
> assume it's trying to reach the global catalog server.  My understanding
> was such that the global catalog only really needed to be contacted for
> resources outside the domain, because each DC should have it's own full
> copy of AD for the domain it's in................any suggestions??
>
> Thanks!

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