Intersite topology generation disabled

Question

I noticed when using the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer that all my sites have both Intrasite and Intersite topology generation disabled. I was under the impression that the KCC will not create connections with this disabled but all of my replication
connections are automatically generated.
How is this possible?
Is there any advantage to enable Inter and Intra site topology generation?
Thank youm
Kenny

Answer 1

Kenny,
You are correct that with both the Intrasite and Intersite topology generation disabled, the KCC will not create connection objects.  I suspect what happened is that it was turned on at one point where the KCC created the connection objects and once
it was turned off they were never deleted as the KCC handles that function also.  Not on = no deletion of the objects.
I have also seen where an admin has actually renamed a manual connection object to <automatically generated> which was doable, although I believe this "feature" has since been removed in later version of the OS.  You may want to investigate
that. 
I strongly recommend that you turn on the topology generator and let it do its thing automatically.  You cannot out do the KCC here.  To reiterate Mr X's recommendation, please read:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markmoro/archive/2011/08/05/you-are-not-smarter-than-the-kcc.aspx
Hope this helps.
Gary
Gary G. Gray
 MCP, MCTS Server 2008R2, MCITP Server 2008R2
 ex Microsoft Certified Trainer - Server 2008 R2
 ex Microsoft Premier Field Engineer - Directory Services
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