General Setup question

[Tony]

Hi,

I am currently running Windows 2003 in a single domain with two DC's
at one location with another location authenicating over the WAN to
the two DC's. I am planning on setting up another DC at the offsite
location for authentication. I just want to make sure I am not missing
anything when setting this up so here are my plans:

Setting up two sites

-Building A with a special subnet
-Building B with a special subnet

- Connecting these through a site link and setting the servers in
each. I will have two DC's so I will put a GC at each location. Also
installing DNS on all the DC's.

The part where I am confused is the DNS is it smart to put DNS on all
the 4 servers? or just one at each location. Also what do I do with
the FSMO roles do I move them or just leave them alone? currently they
are set to the defaults.

 

[Ashish]

Hi Tony,

You have right plans to go:

For DNS, I guess you are using AD intigrated DNS zones so the requirement
can be fullfilled using one DNS in each subnet as the zone replication will
take place with the AD replication.

Ashish

"Tony" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently running Windows 2003 in a single domain with two DC's
> at one location with another location authenicating over the WAN to
> the two DC's. I am planning on setting up another DC at the offsite
> location for authentication. I just want to make sure I am not missing
> anything when setting this up so here are my plans:
>
> Setting up two sites
>
> -Building A with a special subnet
> -Building B with a special subnet
>
> - Connecting these through a site link and setting the servers in
> each. I will have two DC's so I will put a GC at each location. Also
> installing DNS on all the DC's.
>
> The part where I am confused is the DNS is it smart to put DNS on all
> the 4 servers? or just one at each location. Also what do I do with
> the FSMO roles do I move them or just leave them alone? currently they
> are set to the defaults.
>
>

 

[Tony]

On Jul 5, 12:54 am, Ashish <Ash...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> You have right plans to go:
>
> For DNS, I guess you are using AD intigrated DNS zones so the requirement
> can be fullfilled using one DNS in each subnet as the zone replication will
> take place with the AD replication.
>
> Ashish
>
>
>
> "Tony" wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am currently running Windows 2003 in a single domain with two DC's
> > at one location with another location authenicating over the WAN to
> > the two DC's. I am planning on setting up another DC at the offsite
> > location for authentication. I just want to make sure I am not missing
> > anything when setting this up so here are my plans:
>
> > Setting up two sites
>
> > -Building A with a special subnet
> > -Building B with a special subnet
>
> > - Connecting these through a site link and setting the servers in
> > each. I will have two DC's so I will put a GC at each location. Also
> > installing DNS on all the DC's.
>
> > The part where I am confused is the DNS is it smart to put DNS on all
> > the 4 servers? or just one at each location. Also what do I do with
> > the FSMO roles do I move them or just leave them alone? currently they
> > are set to the defaults.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

So you are saying don't put DNS on both servers at both sites? Just
put one at each and then for DNS entries put the one at each site as
the primary and the one at the other site as the secondary??