Decision Summary
Configure domain controllers as global catalog servers only when there is a technical reason to do so. Exceptions may be made when a population of traveling users requires high-performance global catalog services in sites outside the users’ domains.
Keep the number of global catalog servers to a minimum to reduce cost, management, and complexity of configuration and maintenance.
The design of the global catalog servers must be repeated for every forest.
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