Re: Replication via media instead of WAN

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From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:30:43 -0400

In news:OmnPjJ%23kEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Bob Christian <BobChristian@removethis.gmail.com> made a post then I
commented below
> My bad...I was going off an old MCP magazine article for SMTP
> replication. As for the .dit... again, I am Mr. bad info.
>
> Would you happen to have an article that reviews what happens and
> what is replicated when the schema is modified. I had been told that
> it was the whole database and all of the containers.
>
> Bob
>

Nah, just like Laura said, it's just the Schema Partition. After all,
logically if just the Schema gets modified, why would the whole database
replicate anyway? Most of this info is in the MS Press and the MOC
Courseware books.

Here's about the transports
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/distrib/dsbh_rep_gkif.asp

About replication behavior:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/distrib/dsbh_rep_ayla.asp

And here's the main section you can bounce thru:
Active Directory Replication - Reskit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/distrib/dsbh_rep_jfbg.asp

Keep in mind, out of the 3 main partitions, the Schema and the Config
containers are text based data, hence why the SMTP connector can handle that
sort of data, since its text based. The Domain partition is a combo of text
based data and blob data (binary data). SMTP cannot handle that. Hence why
with a slow or asynch WAN link, the IP (RCP based connector) faulters, and
you'll need the SMTP connector. The RPC IP connector can handle domain blob
data. SMTP cannot. Hence again, why if you use the SMTP connector, you need
separate domains on each side.

These are Win2k links, but replication is very similar if not the same (W2k3
is now attribute based and has a couple extra partitions).

Maybe these above links can help Scumbag in his quest.

Ace

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