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More info?)
Well, luck might not be the fitting term
Anyway - the default 90min. for full forest replication depend on your site
link layout, as you can easily reduce the time between replications, but
this might increase the bandwidth occupied for replication traffic.
If you can give me some figueres on your current environment, I might be
able to make some assumptions on how to optimize replication scenario, i.e.:
- Number of sites
- Number of DC's per site
- Number of users per site
- Number of coputers per site
- Bandwidth between sites.
In general most problems can be put into 3 categories:
1. Problems caused by misconfiguration and neglect of reoccuring failure
events that gradually become more severe, or not taking enough care when
performing structural changes to AD infrastructure. Misconfiguration can
also mean "optimization" by deleting what is assumed to be unused objects,
but later cause severe damage to AD.
2. Problems caused by DNS problems, primarily in regard to category 1.
3. Problems occuring in other server apps interfacing AD, that also are
caused by these server apps.
Generally AD seems very solid, the vast majority of my customers do not
encounter any severe problems.
The manifestation of these problems are often kinda like:
- AD Replication failing, often due to underlying DNS problems, that block
for desired site configuration.
- Problems when adding DCs
- DC do not start
- FSMO role failure
- SYSVOL replication (FRS) fails
- AD generally behaves strange, as some system objects are missing, mostly
due to beforementioned "optimizations".
Regards
Søren Lassen
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> Lucky you! :0)
>
> Yes I think that out of hours is the way to go. So you have to wait the
> default 90min for full replication throughout the forest to take place
> then?
>
> Just out of interest, how do problems generally manifest themselves
> when you're called in to do an AD cleanup? I realise that that's a
> fairly open ended question but what sort of things are you generally
> looking for?
>
> Thx.
>