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by ogruizr

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I have three Windows NT Server 4.0 installed in three different cities. I need to upgrade those servers to Windows 2000. First I need documentation about what is the size of the information that generate to connect thoese three servers. This is because I don't know either install one domanain or two or three domains. I need to know the traffic that those servers would generate.

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by mdavis

There is no specific amount of traffic that gets generated. It's all relative to the amount of information in Active Directory, and the number of changes made to the database. If you make the 3 servers all a part of the same domain, 3 different database partitions get replicated between all 3 servers. The Domain partition holds all users, groups, computers, etc within the domain. This will be the largest of the partitions. The 2nd partition is the schema. It's the blueprint for Active Directory. The 3rd partition is configuration info which holds info about all other domains/domain controllers in AD.

If you make the 3 servers a part of 3 separate domains but the same forest, less info gets replicated between them. Only the schema and configuration partitions will be replicated which will reduce the amount of bantwidth needed to replicate. Only problem is, it's more complex to manage.

Hope this helps.

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