In Jan. 2007 our company network consisted of a Windows 2000 server. I configured a new Windows 2003 server, set up AD, made it the PDC and then demoted the Windows 2000 server to a BDC. I attempted to transfer the 5 FSMO roles from win2000 to win2003. At the time all roles except the 'Schema Master Role' transferred. After troubleshooting for a while I was able to get this role transferred to win2003 after making sure the win2003 user acct was a member of the Schema Master group in AD.
If I had the win2000 server powered down it would take 5-10 min. for users to log onto the network. I did some reading and figured that this was a GC issue. In the 'Directory Service' area of Event Viewer there are errors every day saying 'AD was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog'. I checked my DNS and made sure that all DNS Forward Lookup Zones were pointing to the win2003 server and not the win2000 server. After these changes I powered down the win2000 server and rebooted some network pcs and the sign in process did not take 5-10 min. (yay) I still have the GC errors every day but at least it doesn't take users 5-10 min to log in if the win2000 server is down. I would like to get the GC errors taken care of but have ran out of ideas. Does anyone know what else I can do. Sorry if I left out any info. Clearly you can see that I am not an expert at Windows Server, etc.
Thanks,
malaize
If I had the win2000 server powered down it would take 5-10 min. for users to log onto the network. I did some reading and figured that this was a GC issue. In the 'Directory Service' area of Event Viewer there are errors every day saying 'AD was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog'. I checked my DNS and made sure that all DNS Forward Lookup Zones were pointing to the win2003 server and not the win2000 server. After these changes I powered down the win2000 server and rebooted some network pcs and the sign in process did not take 5-10 min. (yay) I still have the GC errors every day but at least it doesn't take users 5-10 min to log in if the win2000 server is down. I would like to get the GC errors taken care of but have ran out of ideas. Does anyone know what else I can do. Sorry if I left out any info. Clearly you can see that I am not an expert at Windows Server, etc.
Thanks,
malaize