ActiveDirectory: Sites and Services - Replicate From/To Help

From: Nick Diotte (xphox_at_xphox.net)
Date: 06/29/04


Date: 29 Jun 2004 09:25:52 -0700

Good afternoon,

I hope I have the correct list for this, please forgive me if it's
incorrect.

Let me give you a bit of background. I have 7 remote locations, 1
administrative office, and they all tie into our co-located equipment
sitting in a central server room.

For sake of ease, we'll use the site names as follows: A-G for remote,
HQ for admin, and ServerRoom for well you guessed it.. Note: Each
location is on a different subnet, and this is a fully routed network
tied in via ADSL.

Okay, so I've setup the following sites, and assigned the proper
subnets.

A - 10.0.1.0
B - 10.0.2.0
C - 10.0.3.0
D - 10.0.4.0
E - 10.0.5.0
F - 10.0.6.0
G - 10.0.7.0
HQ - 10.0.10.0
ServerRoom - Ties in all the ADSL connections.

Sites A-G contain one domain controller only, with the exception of E,
which also contains a secondary DC, as we are using a two domain model
(one for security, one for our domain). HQ contains a dedicated
domain controller (holding the 3 domain roles), an office domain
controller, as well as a security domain controller.

Each office DC is setup to be a preferred bridgehead server, except
for the dedicated DC sitting in HQ.

So my question is how do I setup this replication? KCC has
automatically done it's thing, but I question how correct it is.
Maybe it's just me, but something doesn't look right.

Can you give me some kind of example of what it should look like? And
any pointers on if I've done something terribly wrong?

The reason why I ask, is that I'm getting warnings in the File
Replication event logs.

How can I test replication is working, and I didn't muck up anywhere?

Thank you,
Nick



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