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Local BDC and Remote BDC

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by galileoave

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I wanted to add a BDC to one of my remote site which has about 100 users.

Site A - Central Office
It has 250 users.
It has a PDC (file server) and a BDC (Exchange 5.5 Server).

Site B - Remote site
It connects to site A via frame relay with FT
It has 100 users. Users complained of waiting at least 5 to 10 minutes for the login script & antivirus to complete.
I wanted to add a BDC to this site, so users will get authenticated through this BDC server.
Is it possible?

Help!
Thanks,
-Lake

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by beermonster

Yes, I would advise building the new BDC at site A as the build process will synchronise the full sam database, and this will cut the time involved. ship the server to site B and hook it up. Now the fun starts... you would assume that your local machines will log on to the local server, but that is not always the case ! - the workstations will go through a discovery process to find a DC, and that could well direct them to a server in site A (theres a great article on the discovery process - can't remember the Q number but do a search on "under the hood" in technet and you should find it). To overcome the problem, locate SETPRFDC.EXE from the reskit and check out it's usage. Remember that the bdc will need to synch with the pdc regularly, so you could have a comms overhead... Hope this helps.

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