FSMO Roles

[billybunter]

Hi hope some on can advise me.

I have two 2000 DC's one holds all the FSMO roles both are P4 512 machines no raid etc.

I have recently added a 2003 DC zeon machine with 1GB Ram, raid 1.

My predicament is every thing is running well no problems, touch wood. Do I swap the FSMO roles to the 2003 server as it runs raid 1 for added tolerance or do I leave it on the 2000 machine? if the answer is transfer do I transfer the roles from the 2000 machine to the 2003 machine or do I do the transfer on the 2003 machine or doesn't it matter?

 

[pagy]

I don't really think it matters a great deal, if the server holding the roles dies you can always sieze the roles anyway, but personal preference for me would be to have the roles on the 2003 DC.

http://www.petri.co.il/understanding_fsmo_roles_in_ad.htm

http://www.petri.co.il/transferring_fsmo_roles.htm

Paul

MCSE 2003

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein

 

[billybunter]

Great thanks for that, I will be installing exchange 2007 soon so think I will have to transfer the roles anyway.

You may be able to help with the Global Catalouge issue, I only have one site should I make more than one of my dc's GC servers or is one sufficent?

 

[pagy]

I'd have a couple of GCs. Just bear in mind some info from the undertanding fsmo roles link above about the infrastructure master and Gcs, this is not an issue if you only have a single domain environment.


Paul

MCSE 2003

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein

 

[Davetoo]

Exchange 2007 requires the FSMO's to be on a 2003 server...transfer them over to the new DC.

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[58sniper]

You have DCs with only 512MB of RAM and 1GB of RAM? I certainly wouldn't recommend installing Exchange or even doing the schema extension before bumping that RAM up. Way up.

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[lovalles]

billybunter just for your knowledge remember that Exchange 2007 must be running on a 64 bit machine. Thats means Windows Standard 2003 64 Bit or Windows Enterprise 2003 64 Bit.