How to Replace a Forest root DC.

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Don H

Hello everyone. We aare a small company with only one
Domain Controller. We would like to replace it. What is
the best way to do this? I setup the new server as another
DC in the same domain. Is it now just a matter of
transferring the master roles to the new server? Is there
a KB article on how to do this?

Thanks in advance...
 
Don,

You're on the right track, just bring up a new DC, then transfer the FSMO
roles and make it a Global Catalog server.
Here is a link to the article that discusses transferring the FSMO roles:
255690 HOW TO: View and Transfer FSMO Roles in the Graphical User Interface
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255690

Then run dcpromo on the old DC and demote it to a member server, then you
can go from there depending on what you want to do with the old server.

It's worth noting that having two DC's is a very important piece of a
Disaster Recovery plan, since you don't really have a distributed computing
platform with a single DC. If that one DC fails, you have to rely on
system state backups, instead of an online replica DC.

Hope this all helps.

--
Mike Shepperd MCSE Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Support Engineer
Enterprise Platforms Support
Directory Services Team

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| Hello everyone. We aare a small company with only one
| Domain Controller. We would like to replace it. What is
| the best way to do this? I setup the new server as another
| DC in the same domain. Is it now just a matter of
| transferring the master roles to the new server? Is there
| a KB article on how to do this?
|
| Thanks in advance...
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