Changing a Win2K Server to the schema master

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Lance Armstrong

I have a Win2k Server DC with Active Directory that I
pulled from our live environment. It was not the first
Win2K Server in the live environment so it is not the
domain's schema master, all FSMO rules still point to the
live environment's schema master.

Is there a was I can make this server retain the GC, all
the users and DNS, etc., but make it the new schema master
in an offline test environment? When trying to add pre-
Windows 2000 computers to this server I always get "the
controller for this domain cannot be contacted". Changes
aren't being made to the schema.

Any advice?
Thanking you in advance,

Lance
 
Have you tried to seize the Schema Master role with ntdsutil yet? That might
do the trick.

As an aside, what you are doing is not really good practice as it will leave
an orphaned DC object in AD which will require a metadata cleanup to fix,
which may or may not be a big deal for you. Whatever happens, don't ever
reintroduce this server into the live environment after making it a schema
master.
 
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