Extra Global Catalogue Server

[Thunderfly]

What exactly do I need to do to add an extra global catalogue server?

 

[Davetoo]

Go to your AD, Sites and Services. Find your site, then go to Servers, select the server that you want to make a GC, highlight it's NTDS Settings, right click for Properties, and check the Global Catalog box.

 

[Thunderfly]

Gees, lightning fast and to the point! Thanks for your help!

 

[Davetoo]

I ran into the same issue just a few weeks ago.

Rememeber, it will increase your network traffic briefly as the catalog is replicated to the new server. Depending upon your network, this could slow ya down a bit.

 

[GiaBetiu]

Advice: 1xGC /site(subnet). Gia Betiu
giabetiu@chello.nl
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5, soon MCSE2k

 

[Thunderfly]

Why only 1 GC per site?

 

[GiaBetiu]

The replication traffic will be substantial if you have more GCs. Imagine that you have more domains too. A GC will have the informaion from al of them. Gia Betiu
giabetiu@chello.nl
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5, soon MCSE2k

 

[Thunderfly]

Ok, copy that but two GC's should not be be too much traffic...

 

[Davetoo]

How many users/objects in your AD?

I've seen only negligble increase in traffic due to the replication since adding a 2nd GC to my domain. I have about 100 users, plus another 60 with Exchange, and about 30 shares between my two file servers. Not a problem to date.