Help removing PDC from domain and promoting a BDC - Server..

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"Gman" <gatael@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everybody.
>
> Was hoping that someone would be able to help me with some
> suggestions or a guide to removing a PDC
> and promoting the BDC to be
> the new PDC. Both servers are Windows 2003 enterprise.

Then they are NOT "PDC" NOR "BDC" but both are DCs.

No promotion is required if you have the other ALREADY A DC.

What you must guard is to make sure you have the Master roles when
you finish -- which should transfer automatically but I prefer to do it
manually to make sure.

Also before starting, make the second DC a GC so you will have at
least one GC afterwards (with a small Forest, or single Domain all
DCs should be GCs.)

Then use DCPromo on the departing DC while both are online.

> The reason for this is that originally we had a storage space issue
> on our PDC and so someone dumped a new server in as a BDC to help with
> the problem and now we would like to remove the PDC since we'd like to
> use it elsewhere in our organization.

You really should have two DCs minimum IF YOU CARE about the
domain, fault tolerance, easy recovery etc.

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>
> TIA
>
> Grant
>

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"" wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> Was hoping that someone would be able to help me with some
> suggestions or a guide to removing a PDC and promoting the BDC
> to be
> the new PDC. Both servers are Windows 2003 enterprise.
>
> The reason for this is that originally we had a storage
> space issue
> on our PDC and so someone dumped a new server in as a BDC to
> help with
> the problem and now we would like to remove the PDC since we'd
> like to
> use it elsewhere in our organization.
>
> TIA
>
> Grant

Hi

i would suggest you that after transferring PDC role to another DC and
demoting the first make sure that you have all the FSMO roles

or you can make sure that you have those roles before you demote the
DC
here’s the article that you can follow to make sure that you have
all those FSMO roles in the domain

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

else you will face many problems after that
a) you won’t be able to promote a GC
b) you won’t be able to promote any other DC in the domain
c) Client machines will stop getting authenticated from the domain



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Nitin

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