Managing Logon Servers

[Guest Joe]

Is there anyway to specify in active directory or through a Group Policy

which Logon servers computers can logon to. Let me explain the situation, we

have a single domain and 2 offices connected by a VPN. The main office has

about 10 servers (2 AD Servers, Exchange, and various app servers) with 140

users while the remote office has about 20 users and 3 servers (2 AD Servers

and a fileserver). we are running into speed issues when some of our servers

at the main office are using the AD boxes across the VPN as logon servers.

Speeds just crawl and i eventually have to reboot and hope the server uses

the correct Logon servers. Does anyone have any ideas on what we can do so

that the main office servers and pc's use the AD servers in our locatoin and

the remote office servers and pc's use their AD servers to logon.

 

Thanks for any help on this matter.

Joe

[Guest JohnB]

Re: Managing Logon Servers

 

Sites and Services is the way to go here.

There's a pretty good article here on it:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/stepbystep/adsrv.mspx

 

You can see what your Logon Server is by going to a command line and typing

"set", and look at the entry after logonserver

 

 

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:7D3E2827-DF00-4FFE-B119-80DCD7893586@microsoft.com...

> Is there anyway to specify in active directory or through a Group Policy

> which Logon servers computers can logon to. Let me explain the situation,

> we

> have a single domain and 2 offices connected by a VPN. The main office

> has

> about 10 servers (2 AD Servers, Exchange, and various app servers) with

> 140

> users while the remote office has about 20 users and 3 servers (2 AD

> Servers

> and a fileserver). we are running into speed issues when some of our

> servers

> at the main office are using the AD boxes across the VPN as logon servers.

> Speeds just crawl and i eventually have to reboot and hope the server uses

> the correct Logon servers. Does anyone have any ideas on what we can do

> so

> that the main office servers and pc's use the AD servers in our locatoin

> and

> the remote office servers and pc's use their AD servers to logon.

>

> Thanks for any help on this matter.

> Joe

[Guest Joe]

Re: Managing Logon Servers

 

I was looking at that also...is that something that can be done on the fly?

meaning can this be done during business hours? without affecting users

currently logged in? Also for the servers is there a way to change a logon

server on the fly? one of our critical servers is logged into a AD server

over the VPN and i want to change it to a local AD server without restarting

the machine.

 

"JohnB" wrote:

> Sites and Services is the way to go here.

> There's a pretty good article here on it:

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/stepbystep/adsrv.mspx

>

> You can see what your Logon Server is by going to a command line and typing

> "set", and look at the entry after logonserver

>

>

> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:7D3E2827-DF00-4FFE-B119-80DCD7893586@microsoft.com...

> > Is there anyway to specify in active directory or through a Group Policy

> > which Logon servers computers can logon to. Let me explain the situation,

> > we

> > have a single domain and 2 offices connected by a VPN. The main office

> > has

> > about 10 servers (2 AD Servers, Exchange, and various app servers) with

> > 140

> > users while the remote office has about 20 users and 3 servers (2 AD

> > Servers

> > and a fileserver). we are running into speed issues when some of our

> > servers

> > at the main office are using the AD boxes across the VPN as logon servers.

> > Speeds just crawl and i eventually have to reboot and hope the server uses

> > the correct Logon servers. Does anyone have any ideas on what we can do

> > so

> > that the main office servers and pc's use the AD servers in our locatoin

> > and

> > the remote office servers and pc's use their AD servers to logon.

> >

> > Thanks for any help on this matter.

> > Joe

>

>

>

[Guest JohnB]

Re: Managing Logon Servers

 

It can be done during the day but, it won't affect any users unless they

reboot.

 

There is not way to change the logon server, that I know of. There used to

be a way with NT, but it doesn't work with 2000 (or higher)

 

 

 

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:214EC416-77A1-447D-9AD8-59040B6B5014@microsoft.com...

>I was looking at that also...is that something that can be done on the fly?

> meaning can this be done during business hours? without affecting users

> currently logged in? Also for the servers is there a way to change a

> logon

> server on the fly? one of our critical servers is logged into a AD server

> over the VPN and i want to change it to a local AD server without

> restarting

> the machine.

>

> "JohnB" wrote:

>

>> Sites and Services is the way to go here.

>> There's a pretty good article here on it:

>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/stepbystep/adsrv.mspx

>>

>> You can see what your Logon Server is by going to a command line and

>> typing

>> "set", and look at the entry after logonserver

>>

>>

>> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:7D3E2827-DF00-4FFE-B119-80DCD7893586@microsoft.com...

>> > Is there anyway to specify in active directory or through a Group

>> > Policy

>> > which Logon servers computers can logon to. Let me explain the

>> > situation,

>> > we

>> > have a single domain and 2 offices connected by a VPN. The main office

>> > has

>> > about 10 servers (2 AD Servers, Exchange, and various app servers) with

>> > 140

>> > users while the remote office has about 20 users and 3 servers (2 AD

>> > Servers

>> > and a fileserver). we are running into speed issues when some of our

>> > servers

>> > at the main office are using the AD boxes across the VPN as logon

>> > servers.

>> > Speeds just crawl and i eventually have to reboot and hope the server

>> > uses

>> > the correct Logon servers. Does anyone have any ideas on what we can

>> > do

>> > so

>> > that the main office servers and pc's use the AD servers in our

>> > locatoin

>> > and

>> > the remote office servers and pc's use their AD servers to logon.

>> >

>> > Thanks for any help on this matter.

>> > Joe

>>

>>

>>