Help.
We have a 4 domain Windows NT environment, with 3 remote sites, which we are in the process of upgrading, into a single domain structure. We were having a discussion at work today on this. During the discussions, one of my collegues pointed out that we should create an environment were the 3 remote sites are child domains, to which I disagreed. My reasoning was that we would setup DC servers in the 3 remote sites, which would be used for authentication at the remote sites. But my collegue pointed out that if the link to the main site (all sites are connected by 256Kbs Frame Circuits) dropped there would issues with the users accessing the local email server (E2k3 or E2k). Unfortunately he did not state what exactly the problem would be. Does anyone out there know what the potential communication problem would in such a situation? Secondly, what FSMO role would to be owned/run by the remote Global Catalog Server?
We have a 4 domain Windows NT environment, with 3 remote sites, which we are in the process of upgrading, into a single domain structure. We were having a discussion at work today on this. During the discussions, one of my collegues pointed out that we should create an environment were the 3 remote sites are child domains, to which I disagreed. My reasoning was that we would setup DC servers in the 3 remote sites, which would be used for authentication at the remote sites. But my collegue pointed out that if the link to the main site (all sites are connected by 256Kbs Frame Circuits) dropped there would issues with the users accessing the local email server (E2k3 or E2k). Unfortunately he did not state what exactly the problem would be. Does anyone out there know what the potential communication problem would in such a situation? Secondly, what FSMO role would to be owned/run by the remote Global Catalog Server?