Transfer Roles

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surya

Let us assume there is a Windows 2000 domain with 2 domain contollers.
First domain controller has all 5 FSMO roles. If it is gone bad, how can I
transfer the 5 roles to my second domain contoller.

Thank you so much
 
During the seizure process, ntdsutil will first try to transfer the role
before seizing it. This means that if you try to seize the role but ntdsutil
can transfer it instead it will.

If it's a single domain you don't have to take the GC into consideration
when placing the roles. If it's not a singel domain envirionment check this
article on placement.

Q223346 - FSMO Placement and Optimization on Windows 2000 Domains:
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q223346

Regards,
/Jimmy
 
See in NT, If we have a BDC, we can promote BDC to PDC, even the PDC is
offline also. But how can we achieve this in windows 2000, when my 1st
DC(which is acting as all 5 roles) is offline. how do we make our network up
quickly.? can you please explain
 
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See in NT, If we have a BDC, we can promote BDC to PDC, even the PDC is
offline also. But how can we achieve this in windows 2000, when my 1st
DC(which is acting as all 5 roles) is offline. how do we make our network up
quickly.? can you please explain




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Surya,

Take a look at the post that Jimmy contributed. He is
dead on.

Think about it for a second: why can you promote a WINNT
4 BDC to PDC even when the WINNT 4 PDC is offline? What
is the significant difference between a PDC and a BDC in
WINNT 4?

This is very very different in WIN2000. If you have two
DCs ( always a good idea for the sake of redundancy - and
job security! ) and one of the DCs goes down you still
have the second DC. You would just have to worry about
the FSMO Roles ( to simplify this for this post's
purposes ). And, with NTDSUtil you can either transfer or
seize any of the FSMO Roles that the downed DC might have
held.

Now, to touch on what Jimmy stated - about the Global
Catalog Server: If you have a single domain/tree/forest
then you do not need to worry about the placement of the
FSMO Roles and the GC. This is due to the fact that in a
single domain/tree/forest there can not be
any "phantoms". However, once you add a second domain (
say, for example, a child domain ) the possibility of
a "phantom" does indeed exist.

HTH,

Cary
 
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