Multi-site / Only 1 DC / Connectivity Loss / Authentication ????

Dear all,

I have a multi-site Win2k3 native domain structure which consists of 7 sites
(branch offices) but only one DC located in HQ...

Sometimes we may experience connectivity problems with the branch offices
and during this period clients located in the branch offices have
difficulties accessing resources on thier file servers in their LAN...

Now the question(s):
1) If I deploy additional DCs on each site, does it solve my client/user
authentication/authorization problem?
2) If not, what shall I do?

Thx in advance,

Shenan
Thu Jun 23 01:07:25 CDT 2005

CET wrote:
> I have a multi-site Win2k3 native domain structure which consists of
> 7 sites (branch offices) but only one DC located in HQ...
>
> Sometimes we may experience connectivity problems with the branch
> offices and during this period clients located in the branch offices
> have difficulties accessing resources on thier file servers in their
> LAN...
>
> Now the question(s):
> 1) If I deploy additional DCs on each site, does it solve my
> client/user authentication/authorization problem?

This should be done.
Once in place, the DCs will handle the intersite synchronization for you.
They will be other considerations, depending on the security/network model
(NAT, etc.) - but these are things you need to consider in your situation
anyway.

(One DC.. Ouch.)

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