Global Catalog & Universal Group Membership Caching

jbaello

I am currently hammering down this 2 AD/Replication technology M$ has, I need to find out if you guys have any reference that can go real granular as far as the technology that goes beyond this, everyone knows that anyone can configure this throught AD Sites and Services, but I wanted to undertand thouroughly on how the replication works as well the database etc.

Thanks in advance!

dynamik

That's a pretty broad topic. Are there any specific questions you have?

Playing around with repadmin and replmon might give you some more insight into how replication works.

Replmon
RepAdmin

What are you using to study for 294?

jbaello

For 293 and 294 I'm using Trainsignal pure lab, and MS-Press, I really like Trainsignal cause it's a hands on approach, the downside is you gotta have real hardware resource, this works for me for some reason I cannot stand virtual machine.

royal

From my sticky in the 70-294 forum:
Global Catalogs/Universal Group Membership Caching
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/0d34c3b9-499b-41d3-a55f-527ce61e78581033.mspx?mfr=true (GC Technical Reference)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/0e74916d-28d7-4cdd-8dce-89c824622fcd1033.mspx (GCs and Sites)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/0e4d2466-68e8-40d8-8c72-099f8bc259ff1033.mspx (Planning GC Placement)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/8ac658b0-199c-47df-ac2b-ef9cb56fa7f01033.mspx (GC Replication)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/24311c41-d2a1-4e72-a54f-150483fa885a1033.mspx (What is the GC?)