Mandatory profile, failover domain controllers

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Blake

Assume you have 2 DCs - DC1 and DC2. You have a mandatory profile stored in
DC1. This is configured in ADUC for that user.

Assume DC1 is unavailable.

User logs on OK (authenticating against DC2) but can't obtain his mandatory
profile from DC1.

Is there any way this info can be replicated?

Thanks
Blake
 
Blake said:
Assume you have 2 DCs - DC1 and DC2. You have a mandatory profile stored
in DC1. This is configured in ADUC for that user.

Assume DC1 is unavailable.

User logs on OK (authenticating against DC2) but can't obtain his
mandatory profile from DC1.

Is there any way this info can be replicated?
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Several ways -- at least: 1) DFS 2) Admin scheduled batch file with Xcopy

But replication isn't the REAL issue with Mandatory profiles
since being read only they seldom change.

The real issue is the fault tolerance so DFS is your best bet --
with OR without automatic replication. This way your UNC
name for the mandatory profile location will refer to whichever
file server is online.
 
Excellent! I'll look into that option. Thanks
Blake

Herb Martin said:
Blake said:
Assume you have 2 DCs - DC1 and DC2. You have a mandatory profile stored
in DC1. This is configured in ADUC for that user.

Assume DC1 is unavailable.

User logs on OK (authenticating against DC2) but can't obtain his
mandatory profile from DC1.

Is there any way this info can be replicated?
Click to expand...

Several ways -- at least: 1) DFS 2) Admin scheduled batch file with Xcopy

But replication isn't the REAL issue with Mandatory profiles
since being read only they seldom change.

The real issue is the fault tolerance so DFS is your best bet --
with OR without automatic replication. This way your UNC
name for the mandatory profile location will refer to whichever
file server is online.
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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
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[phone number on web site]
Thanks
Blake
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We have our roaming profiles on a fault tolerant cluster

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Paul Bergson
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSi
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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