Re: Slow site performance

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I forgot to say that if you only 2 have DCs windows 2003 you should make your FFL windows 2003 so that you can take advantage of LVR, of course in your situation you probably don't have a very busy AD but by having LVR in place you'll have less AD traffic in your lines.

UGMC=Universal Group Membership caching
LVR=Linked Value Replication
FFL=Forest Functional Level

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

"Slicster" <Slicster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DD0FAB0A-5ACB-409C-9791-257B29B70F55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What does UGMC stand for? Sorry if it's a dumb question but I have a similar
issue and would like to see if it applies to me.

"Jorge Silva" wrote:

Hi
Assuming that you have only 1 domain, Start by disable the UGMC, there's no
need to have that enabled, make both DCs GCs, you don't have more
replication traffic by making both DCs GCs because they belong to the same
domain and each one have the same information in their AD database, so the
cost of having both DCs as GCs is nothing, then make sure that the client
machine use their local DNS server, and finally analyse your traffic and
make sure that you don't have any application or machines trying to reach
the other DC in the other site, or any other member server.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

"Rocky" <rocky_123@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23RFq5ZDJHHA.2236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a native 2003 active directory domain spread across 2 sites, site >A
>and site B. I have set up the 2 sites and associated the respective >subnet
>to them. I have 2 domain controllers, 1 in each site. Site A have the
>domain controller that holds all of the fsmo roles as well as the >global
>catolog server. Site B's domain controller is set up as a global >catalog
>server. Group membership caching is enabled on both domain controllers.
>
> The 2 sites are connected by a radio link which occasionally > experiences
> drop outs or lost packets.
>
> I work in site B.
>
> The problem is that I can always tell when the radio link is playing up
> because my workstation starts freezing whenever I try to run a program > or
> click on the start menu. Then after 5-10 seconds the computer becomes
> responsive again. This problem only occurs when the radio link is > losing
> connectivity. I tried another workstation and experienced the same
> pattern of freezing when trying to open programs or use the start menu.
> (I log on as local administrator to these workstations by the way)
>
> Does any one have any suggestions on what I can do to correct this
> problem? I have run dcdiag, netdiag, repadmin, etc and the > configuration
> seems correct. The workstation reports it is in site B I run a script > to
> check this property.
>
> Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks,
>
> John
>
>


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