Archive for January, 2004
Controlling the creation of Active Directory replication connections
The knowledge consistency checker (KCC) is a Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 component that automatically generates and maintains the intra- and inter-site replication topology.
Whilst the KCC generally works well, sometimes it may be necessary to prevent the KCC’s automatic generation of replication connections (a scripted method is also available).
It should be noted [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2004 under Active Directory.
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Determining costs for Active Directory site links
Whilst reviewing a colleague’s Active Directory design document today, I came across the following model for determining the cost of a site link, depending on the available bandwidth:
Replication cost = 1024 x 1/logbandwidth (in Kbps)
The following table gives some example costs for common bandwidth values:
Bandwidth (Kbps)
Replication cost
28
702
56
586
64
567
96
517
128
486
256
425
512
378
1024
340
2048
309
4096
283
Posted: January 26th, 2004 under Active Directory.
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