Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:09:00 GMT

Hello Michel-Vincent,

> I will soon publish on my blog how to view Phantom
> objects; Viewing deleted objects is easy enough. In
> order to view Phantom objects, one needs to backup
> AD and access it offline using LDP.

Can you specify what you mean? You can view phantom-objects online, and AFAIK there's no way to open AD offline with LDP - LDP is a LDAP-Browser and you can't access the DB directly.

> ... Because the reason a GC cannot be an IM are
> Phantom objects...

The GC can be a IM - as stated in my blog - but the IM will never be able to detect which phantom objects are required if it run's on the GC. However this is not necessary if either every DC in that domain is also a GC, or if it's a single domain (because there won't be external users in groups and therefor no need to create phantoms).

Ulf

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:25:00 GMT

... Because the reason a GC cannot be an IM are Phantom objects...

Cheers

MV

Viewing Phantom Objects

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:19:00 GMT

I will soon publish on my blog how to view Phantom objects; Viewing deleted objects is easy enough. In order to view Phantom objects, one needs to backup AD and access it offline using LDP.

http://spaces.msn.com/members/mvleriche/

Best regards,

MV

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:52:00 GMT

Thank you Tatjana - i've updated it. Enjoy your weekend and the nice weather.

Ulf

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:41:00 GMT

Hi Ulf,

I would like to comment and suggest to include following references in your details for complete reference & clarification:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=248047 and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/result.aspx?EvtSrc=Active+Directory&EvtID=1419&ProdName=Windows+Operating+System&LCID=1033&ProdVer=5.0

Thanks, & have a nice weekend,
Tatjana Aggoussi

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:42:00 GMT

Hello John,

the second one. In your scenario you do not need the IM, there are no other domains where he'd need to check for consistency.

Ulf

re: Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:04:00 GMT

OK, I'm not allowed to run the IM on my GC server because I have DCs in my domain which are not GCs.

I AM allowed to run the IM on my GC server because there's only one domain in my forest.

If both of these statements are true (and they describe my environment), which takes precedence?