Hi All One question if I may just butt in just a second please. Only one GC per site? I have been running two on our single site of about 50 machines for several months without error. If I had a user location with say 180 users and a total of 225 machines and all on one IP subnet I would certainly want more than one GC? Are we talking AD Sites or IP Subnets as sites? I assume the former in which case I have another question. Whilst creating Sites is recommended it is not compulsory and whilst AD may not work as well without them it isn't a prerequisite as I understand so what is the problem with multiple GC's' per Site? I do appreciate that too many GC's overall can be just as bad as to few.but one per Site seems low to me? Many thanks in advance. Regards, Paul Lemoidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Tolmachoff (Lists)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:08 PM Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000 > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > > I tryed to send you the screenshot of my settings, but i guess it's > > bigger them what allowed. Here is what my settings read: > > Yes, I got the attachment. > > > MAIL is my email server on secondary DC. Rome was the first DC for > > domain. I installed secondary DC for the same site and later loaded > > Exchange on it. > > My point was that MAIL does not have ROME as a DC in Domain access, only as > a GC. > > > The reason i raised some concerns about MAIL having incorrect settings, > > because when i created accounts in Rome, they didn't replicate to MAIL > > and backwards. I also installed second DNS on MAIL and it was also > > acting goofy. I would see the copy of first DNS, but this would act like > > it needs to be setup.... > > Red Flag on play! > > I bet this a DNS issue. > > AD absolutely requires properly configure domain wide DNS zones. > > Do you see the srv records in the DNS AD Domain zone? > > Do you have a root zone? > > Are the zones AD Integrated mode? > > > This made me look into my domain configurations. I checked AD Sites and > > Services and knowticed that someone made MAIL a GC also. So i had 2 GC > > and AD was getting confised. I unchecked the GC checkbox for MAIL and > > now i only have ROME as a CG. > > OK > > > Reason for demoting this MAIL server is to clear all the AD settings i > > have on that server and clear ROME AD. I do want to promote it back to > > DC later on again, but at least i would know that everything is correct. > > No one else would mess with the servers again! :) > > Lets get DNS checked first. > > John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA > Engineer/Consultant > eServices For You > www.eservicesforyou.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp > Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: > Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com > No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org > Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ > Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ > Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com > ------------------------------------------------------ > You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: paul_lemonidis@xxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') >