You never have to tell Active Directory “DC1 should replicate with DC2.” AD figures it out itself. The component that does the figuring is the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) —…
The series concludes with two related topics: the difference between intra-location and cross-location replication (very different schedules, very different protocols, very different failure modes), and how to take manual control…
The previous three posts in this series stood up the lab and built out the topology — Part 1 the why and the lab, Part 2 the headquarters location, Part…
Active Directory works the same on a one-office network as it does on a fifty-location global enterprise — until the “the WAN link to the headquarters DC went down” ticket…
