Re: New AD Sites

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In my opinion... Never. Eheheh.

Anyway, Inter-Site SMTP Replication is used If you have a site that has no physical connection to the rest of your network, but that can be reached using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), that site has mail-based connectivity only. SMTP replication is used only for replication between sites. You also cannot use SMTP replication to replicate between domain controllers in the same domain-only inter-domain replication is supported over SMTP (that is, SMTP can be used only for inter-site, inter-domain replication). SMTP replication can be used only for schema, configuration, and global catalog partial replica replication. SMTP replication observes the automatically generated replication schedule.
Inter-site replication using SMTP is not supported for domain controllers (DCs) that are replicas for the same domain.
Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up ISM-SMTP Replication
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/ismsmtp.mspx
also read
Replication Transports

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/distrib/dsbh_rep_gkif.mspx?mfr=true

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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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