mthaler 0 Posted February 16, 2003 OK, to begin with I am talking about a home server test setup, which I use for teaching myself before inflicting my limited knowledge on others :-) At any rate, I set up two WIN2K servers with AD, and that is working fine. Now I want to retire the original server. The question is: If I run DCPROMO to demote the first one, will the second one take up the slack or do I need to move services over manually? Any good readme howto articles on this? Thanks Share this post Link to post
DS3Circuit 0 Posted February 16, 2003 To be safe Transfer the 5 fmso roles from dc1 to dc2 and make dc2 a GC ADUC can do 3 of the roles ADSS can do the GC under NTDS ADDT can do 1 role. and you will have to load the schema snapin to transfer the final role. If you prefer to do this through CLI, then use ntdsutil.exe. Unless DC1 provided DNS, DHCP, WINS, DFS Root, then that should do it, otherwise transfer those services and/or correct IP configs to DC2. HTH Share this post Link to post
mthaler 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Quote: Posted: 16th February 2003 10:34 Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be safe Transfer the 5 fmso roles from dc1 to dc2 and make dc2 a GC ADUC can do 3 of the roles ADSS can do the GC under NTDS ADDT can do 1 role. and you will have to load the schema snapin to transfer the final role. If you prefer to do this through CLI, then use ntdsutil.exe. Unless DC1 provided DNS, DHCP, WINS, DFS Root, then that should do it, otherwise transfer those services and/or correct IP configs to DC2. OK, I understand some but not all of your FLA & TLA's. GC=Global Catalog DC1=Domain Controller 1 DNS, DHCP,WINS I know. Could you explain the others, or point me to a good primer. Share this post Link to post
DS3Circuit 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Sorry, I am just used to typing out acronyms ... ADUC - Active directory users and computers ADSS - Active directory sites and services ADDT - Active directory domains and trusts NTDS - NT Directory services CLI - command line interface, as oppossed to GUI FSMO - flexible single master operations DFS - distributed file system. www.labmice.net for a further explanation of what each is, or if you have more specific questions, feel free to inquire. Share this post Link to post
