I am having a weird problem with Sites and Services. Let me first give
you an overview of the network layout.

empty forest root: SRV1 + SRV2 (both DC & GC) rootdomain

Domain1: dc1 + dc2 + dc3 (all DC & GC)

Both rootdomain and domain1 reside in lets say Florida and in the same
building.

Domain2: dc4 + dc5 (both DC & GC) this domain is in California

Domain3: dc6 + dc7 (both DC & GC) this domain is in Washington DC

Rootdomain is the first domain to go up which is acting as the empty
root and hold the Schema. The other domains underneath it are
additional domain trees in an existing forest. I have the forward and
reverse lookup zones in DNS replicating forest wide. If you need more
information let me know.

So basically right now in Sites and Services I setup subnets so when
the domain controllers were brought from all the sites they would go
into Default-First-Site-Name folder. Now that all the sites and domain
controllers are online and everything is synced up I wanted to create
different "sites" in sites and services so the domain controllers
from Florida, California, and Washington, would all be organized and if
a new DC was brought up it would from any site it would go into the
proper site folder. Seems simple enough right?

I made sure the subnets were setup correctly and pointing to the proper
site folder. All the <automatically generated> connections were in
place. I right clicked each DC in sites and services and moved them to
the proper folder. I went to each domain controller in each site and
ran repadmin /syncall. It came back with no errors. Everything seemed
to be working correctly.

The other night I started noticing some latency on replication so I
logged into one of the sites right clicked one of the <automatically
generated> connections and tried to replicate it out of curiosity and
it bombed out. i tried to create a manual connection from domain1 to
domain 3 and it came back with errors saying it failed when it tried to
replicate. I looked in DNS and the soa on one site was completely off
from another site. I manually added a test A record to see how long it
would replicate to the other zones and it never happened. Quickly
thinking I recreated the Default site container and moved all the
DC's back to the original folder. Waited for things to sync up,
tested the manual connections, everything worked and went back to
normal.

Am I missing something here? I really want to organize the layout od
DC's and have this working correctly. The company is growing and were
opening up satellite office all over the place lately and I really
would like to have this a little more organized and functioning more
efficiently than it is now.

Sorry for the long post. Any thoughts?

RICH MCSE
Network Administrator

This is the same as the above post but with a different heading (and
different alias ;-).  What's up?

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