Help with setting up Sites.

Hi,

After taking everyones advice on Sites and researching it further i wanted
to run past people and see what you think on this first draft of a plan.

We have 2 physical sites(A and B) that are a few miles apart and wish to
setup sites and subnets to represent this and for DR style purposes.
Company only has about 150 users as well. Currently everything is based at
Site A apart from a few users at site B - though this number and servers is
increasing by the day.

Root Domain in Forest has a DC01 (GC) and DC02 - Nothing is in here - no
computers or users. I'm not sure why but unfortunately we can't change this
now.
I planned on keeping DC01 (GC) at Site A and moving DC02 to phsyical site
B - therefore we are covered against a physical site problem.
Should DC02 be set as a GC also before we move this? Also can we just
literally unplug and move it across? (ignoring the sites/subnets for the
moment?)

Anyway.
Domain A is where all our users/computers/live servers are.

This has ADC01 (GC) and ADC02 (GC) currently both located at site A. Is this
right for both to be a GC? I plan to physically move ADC02 (GC) to site B -
again - can i just do this?

I therefore propose in my AD sites and subnets i have:


Default first site name (A) - respresenting physical site A
DC01 (GC)
ADC01 (GC)

Site B- respresenting physical site B
DC02
ADC02(GC)

I plan to have these on their respective sunets and obviously the clients
servers in the relevant sites to authenticate against them.

My question is because we removed an old domain we have some DCs left over -
should we utiilse more for an extra one at each site or is this overkill?

Also my Exchange 2003 server is for some reason in the list of default
servers. Should this be there? I don't mind - it can just be in Site A if
so.




I then plan to replicate accross each site.



Does this proposal sound ok?

I realise half of this may be wrong and so appreciate all the feedback and
suggestions.

Thanks again (and determined to get these set up soon before Exchange 2007!)
Michael.



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