Re: AD replication (correct terms)

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Again the discussion is moot and I haven't seen where MS has officially published anything.

But at a guess, the GC partitions are not writable. Or to put it better, you may find a way to write to the GC partitions, but you can't get that to replicate into a writeable partition on a DC that hosts the domain.

A better question would be, why doesn't it apply to the config and schema partitions.

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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
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Mourad T wrote:
If so, why the same security reasons do not apply for other directory partitions, especially Global Catalog partial replicas ?

Mourad T

"Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote:


I am not sure if MS ever published an official answer for this, but the unofficial answer I am aware of is they don't use SMTP for security reasons. RPC over IP is authenticated and encrypted.

When it really gets down to it though, the reason why is moot. It isn't available plain and simple. It would have been easier to have had all partitions be able to use versus specifically put in code to disallow domain partitions from replicating between domain replicas.

  joe


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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
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Mourad T wrote:

Why SMTP protocol does not support domain partition replication ?

Thanks 

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