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…
Part 2 finished with the headquarters location built out and two DCs in Surat-HO. Now the branch. The challenge: promoting a DC over a slow WAN link with a default…
Part 1 of this series covered the “why” of multi-location Active Directory and built out the four-VM lab. That post ended with one root DC sitting alone in Default-First-Site-Name. This…
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…
