Re: Replication protocol (IP or SMTP)



To further clarify, SMTP is usually best in a location where you have a
highly latent conenction and the rpc streams are going to time out more
often than not. SMTP will just keep retrying as thats the nature of how it
works.

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP

www.briandesmond.com


"Paul Williams [MVP]" <ptw2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure why FRS comes into this. FRS doesn't replicate the domain
> NC -
> it only replicates SYSVOL, which is very much independent of the rest of
> the
> AD replication.
>
> SMTP can only replicate Schema, Configuration and Global Catalog. SMTP
> would be used in a scenario where you have one or two domain controllers
> that are the only DCs for the domain at a very remote location where there
> is a very poor, unreliable network, or where there is a very expensive
> network, for example. In this case, the domain replication occurs locally
> over RPC; the rest of the forest stuff is replicated infrequently over
> SMTP.
>
> I assume one of the reasons that you must use RPC for domain replication
> is
> because of the frequency of the changes, and things like password changes,
> and urgent notification, etc. Probably because RPC is more reliable and
> secure than SMTP as well.
>
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> Paul Williams
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
> http://www.msresource.net | http://forums.msresource.net
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>


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