Re: Need help with sites configuration

The link wasn't provided with intention of saying that you're wrong or
right, the point is that in certain circunstances you may need WINS as
resolution mechanism, the link gives you only some examples where you may
need it or by other words, where WINS is recomended as the resolution
mechanism to use.

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

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services
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"Austin Osuide" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also,
I think to further hasten the death of WINS was why Microsoft came up with
the "Global Single Names" functionality in WS08 DNS.

Regards,

Austin

"Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Austing please read:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837391/en-us

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

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services
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"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Go browse a large network w/o WINS. Not saying you need it but many
companies want it.

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2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Austin Osuide" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Paul,

<PetPeev>
Not pertinent to the question at hand, but as an avid member of the
"Get Rid of WINS" club, which applications do you know that "Need
WINS"?
They probably need NetBIOS resolution capability. Not WINS and you can
live v.well without it if you have a well planed naming process and
manage your DNS search suffixes.
</PetPeev>

Regards,

Austin


"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sounds like you have things defined pretty well. There are a couple
of things to think about.

DHCP is a real issue. With VOIP now becoming bigger, a single dhcp is
an unreal situation. Can you imagine having a single dhcp server and
a site losing its IP assignment device. This is going to become a
huge issue and many people don't even see it coming. So make sure you
have some redundancy with dhcp.

As much as people would like to think they don't need WINS, WINS is
still needed by applications. AD doesn't use it (With the exception
of certain instances of an external forest trust) but you may want to
see if you have WINS and if so I would make sure there was a
replication partner in each site.

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MVP - Directory Services
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<miponte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Need help with disaster situation:

I have an active directory with a single domain and 4 domain
controllers.
I have 2 sites (A and B) configured with 2 domain controllers in each
site.
All domain controllers have a copy of my DNS zone.

All my clients have statically configured DNS servers 1 and 2 both on
site A.
Production computers have a GPO, setting their DNS servers to 3 and 4
both on site B.

Last week I had a problem and the connection from production
computers
to site A was
really slow. I had tested total lost of connection to site A, and
clients correctly
logon and work with site B, but with the lost of bandwith, clients
were still
trying to reach site A, and lots of them were not being able to work:

Their computers were stuck at "Aplying computer settings..."

I am going now to statically configure all 4 DNS servers in all
computers. But I am
Still worried.

I need total indepency so if there is any problem with one site, the
other one will
make the production computers work.

The first two Domain controllers I installed are the ones at site A..

Is there any role or service I have to replicate to site B so I can
have total independency ???

All of the DC are Global Catalog Servers.

PLEASE HELP ??













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