Comments on: Lost Global Catalogue

By: buddyfarr

buddyfarr — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:38:09 +0000

ITBird,

I agree with BigFella, if you have not already, then as soon as you can get your other DC back up then make it a GC too, that way you will not run into this problem again.

By: bigfella

bigfella — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:50:27 +0000

Worth a note that in any domain, especially those hosting Exchange server(s) ALL DC’s should be setup as global catalogues… if you only have 1 GC and it dies, to put it politely your fcuk’d, there should ALWAYS be more than 1 DC in an AD domain at minimum 2 DC’s not just for resiliance but also performance Exchange rely’s heavily on GC’s to perform.
If you cannot afford a 2nd server, get a PC and set it up as a DC as a temporary measure until more reliable hardware can be purchased (a proper server).

By: astronomer

astronomer — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:13:12 +0000

You may already know this but make sure if you have more than one domain you keep infrastructure master and global catalog functions on different servers.
rt

By: itbird

itbird — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:33:37 +0000

Hi again all – my BDC has now been accepted as a Global catalogue server and all replication seems to be working OK. So please ignore my previous email.
Thanks.