[cisco-voip] extending AD for unity 4.0.5

[Jason Aarons (US)]

There is a Microsoft whitepaper on AD Backup/Recovery.  I can't see
undoing Schema changes by hand...nor can I really see doing a AD
Restore!

go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8597

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Stu Packett
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:02 PM
To: jgrace at digitelusa.net; selt9 at yahoo.com
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] extending AD for unity 4.0.5

I'll take a stab at this one in case Selt9 does not reply.  By making
changes on one domain controller and preventing it from replicating it's
changes to other domain controllers gives you the ability to
troubleshoot the problem on one domain controller.  If there was a
problem and it replicated to all DCs, then you just affected your whole
Active Directory.  If you islote the problem on just one DC, this gives
you a chance/time to troubleshoot and resolve the issue.

I hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of James Grace
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:20 PM
To: selt9 at yahoo.com
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] extending AD for unity 4.0.5

thank you for this info this is exactly what i need.  but one thing why
do you block the connect to the other dc

From: Selt9 [mailto:selt9 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:42 AM
To: Stu Packett; Scott Coner (US); jgrace at digitelusa.net;
cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] extending AD for unity 4.0.5

we have done this and it is working without a problem.
we blocked all comunications between shema master and other nodes, then
we extended shema via cisco tool (ad....exe) on Unity DVD, checked if
master shema is extended and then unblock links to other nodes in domain
(DCs).
Immediately after it, we continued with Unity/AD integration without
waiting any longer because you can wait as long as you want but you'll
never know... :):):) ok, you will know, but we had about 50 DCs... so
you should check everyone and that what i meant ...you'll never know
(untill you check all) :)... and who will do that? ;)
 
now, seriously, the basic thing is to have functional replications going
on without a problems before you update shema on the master and when you
unblock communication with other DCs, master will replicate when the
time comes...
so, in this scenario, the risk is the same as with "7 days waiting"...
 
rgds,
selt

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