Advanced AD Inter-Site Replication

Many of us have physical locations that are connected by high-speed connections, but we have elected to still represent these sites as separate AD Sites for other reasons: segmentation of authentication traffic, global catalog load balancing, DFS Root location, disaster recovery, etc. Unfortunately, now that the DCs are in separate AD sites, replication is relegated to the timed replication cycle rather than the change notification cycle used within the same site, or are they?

Windows 7 Optimization – Remove Unnecessary Network Services

Roughly 1 year ago Microsoft released Windows 7 to the retail world and it has definitely been received as a significant improvement over its predecessor Vista. Many of the organizations that took a pass on Vista to stay with XP are starting to give Windows 7 a serious look for its use as their workstation OS platform going forward. As a result, we thought that we should take a look at ways to improve overall system performance within the Windows 7 environment.