Re: GC Infrastructure issue clarification

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There is certainly no requirement that every DC be a GC, in fact in a multi-domain forest it probably would be a bad idea. What you do need is at least one GC in every AD site, otherwise authentication and authorization will suffer greatly.

Allan Jacobs
"denalitom" <denalitom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:133625D4-B10C-479D-A50F-AE215E6C5912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all,
my question is...

Do ALL the DCs in each and every Domain in a multi-Domain Forest need to be
made a GC? Or, is it relegated to just the specific Domain? - if in one
domain the IM is set to be a GC.

Referring to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/223346/en-us
I'm confused by the wording in the General recommendations for FSMO
placement heading: "Multidomain forest where every domain controller in a
domain holds the global catalog server:" It's the "in a domain" part...
should it read "...in every domain..."

I'm also going to take Joe's recommendation and read some of Don Hatcher's
writings on Phantoms.

Thanks in Advance, tom

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