Domain Controler Promotion Question

[Stuart_C]

I am in the middle of promting a member server to a DC but I've been spooked by one of the screens.

 

The DC is for a sperate physical site on a seperate subnet to my main network.

I've set up AD sites and services and defiined the new site in AD with it's correct subnet.

 

When I come to promote the member server I've installed the AD DS role and run dcpromo. It's found the AD, it's decided which site it wants to be in based on it's IP however I'm loking at the screen where i can configure additional options. Now I want it to be a DNS Server (which is fine) but I have the option to make it a Global Cataloge server as well.

 

Now I thought you could onl have one GC in the domain. (there is one at the other site). However the blurb underneath says that you should have one for each site or universal credential caching enabled (which apparetly I havent) and I don't know what to do.

 

Help

[X-13]

I don't know what to do.

 

 

Figure it out, two-face style.

 

Flip a coin. Heads you carry on, tails you stop.

 

 

That's the best advice I can give, as I have no idea either.

[glennda]

You can have as many GC's as you like - if you would like it to be able to process logins etc at the second site then yes enable it as a global catalog server.

 

Take a look at this which explains what a GC does.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736934(v=ws.10)

[Michael]

I agree with the above, you can have as many as you like. 2008 R2 likes to make DCs, GCs as well. It makes sense, otherwise you can have a DC that cannot process logons, in the event the other DC goes down.