Re: Removing Global Catalogs from remote offices

From: John Savill (john_at_savilltech.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:42:35 -0600

Do you use Exchange, I assume there are no Exchange servers at each office,
just a domain controller (Exchange uses GC's heavily).

How many domains do you have in total, I'm assuming its more than one as you
are concerned about the GC content being replicated.

If running Windows 2003 you could enable Global Catalog caching on the sites
to speed up logon times.

While normally it is best to have at least 1 GC per site, with this number
of users you may get away without it but it does depend on the other factors
above.

John

John Savill MCSE MVP
john@savilltech.com
http://www.windows2000faq.com

"hbchrist" <hbchrist@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uyo6veeDEHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> We have a number of small offices, 6 - 12 users per office, spread
> around the country. These offices are connected to HQ via frame relay,
> with each location getting around 128K connections. To reduce network
> traffic, I am considering removing the Global Catalog role from the DCs
> in each of these offices while maintaining the GCs here at HQ.
>
> The employee roster in each location is static, and we don't have
> employees from one office regularly visiting other offices. The internet
> gateway and the mail server for these offices is located at HQ. The DCs
> in the remote offices also function as file servers.
>
> What is the biggest risk or drawback I could suffer if I remove the GC
> role from the remote DCs? We still have GCs here at HQ, and, barring a
> loss of the frame relay, any AD related activities can always check back
> here. The application load, however, is very simple, focused on mail,
> web access, and MS Office.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> hbchrist

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