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Sam

We are planning to implement windows 2003 based Active directory for
three locations over wan link. At Minimum time (30min ) replication sync
should happen between B to A and C to A. Location A will have master
ADS catalog installed B and C will have child.

^ Location A ^
^ 400 Computer ^
^ 400 Users ^
^ ^
Location B Location C
200 Computer 200 Computer
200 Users 200 Users


The questiuon is .

What is the minimum bandwidth is required for link

Location B to Location A
Location C to Location A


Thanks

Sam
 
Hi Sam. There is nothing called Master Catalog, There is global catalogs.
This depends on how much changes you are going to do in AD and if there is
only sync traffic over threes lines or also files.

I Recommend you to use a DNS integrated zone for AD at each site, also a
Global Catalog Server on each site. This guide is good to understand how
Sites and Service and replication works in Active Directory.

Step-by-Step Guide to Active Directory Sites and Services:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/adsites.asp

Personally I'm running over 512K DSL Connection and that works fine, I have
also seen replication from site-site at 256K DSL. We also sync users home
folders here I suppose 128K also should be fine for just accounts, but
that's by design.

Install Replica from Media is a new nice future we have in Windows Server
2003. Instead of replicating a complete copy of the Active Directory
database over the network, this feature allows an administrator to source
initial replication from files created when backing up an existing domain
controller or global catalog server. Make sure you have to place SYSVOL
share on a CD and you still need network connection for a delta replication.

You Sid some thing about At Minimum time (30min ) You can customize your
replication scheduled as described in the article above.
 
thanks for the details info. I will be look in to each point you have
indicated

Technically 256kbps full bandwidth be sufficient for w2k directory service
max.

Sam


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