Hi,
I'm currently trying to unpick a DC configuration in my environment as we introduce new 2012 DCs.
We currently have 4 2003 DCs and we are replacing these with 4 2012 DCs.
One 2003 DC is a VM and has had it's weight and priority set to receive less traffic via GPO. The 2003 PDC has also had it's weight and priority reduced via GPO, presumably to reduce load.
The remaining two 2003 server have a Weight of 1000 and a Priority of 100.
We have introduced 4x 2012 servers and they went in with the default Weight 100 and Priority 0.
I get how this works out, but what I'm not clear on is how the 2x 2003 DCs have been set with a Weight of 1000 or a Priority of 100. The only articles that I can see that refer to setting these values state that it can be done via GPO or the registry. Neither DC have a GPO or registry entry that correlate with these settings.
My question is, how else could these have been set? Could the SRV records have been amended manually and if so, would there not be a danger that they would get republished by the DCs at some point with their default values?
Thanks in advance,
M.