Is there a Primary Domain Controller in my win2000 domain? 1

[jay9333]

I have two domain controllers in my windows 2000 Active Directory domain which was set up before I started working for my current employer. I'm retiring one of them. I was previously told it is the "main" domain controller? What does that mean? Is there a "primary domain controller" in windows 2000? What do I need to check before I demote this server? I've already built another domain controller so now I have 3 running... so basically I'm just trying to figure out the best way to demote this (supposedly) "main" domain controller.

thanks for any help you can provide,

jason

 

[ADB100]

You need to check who are the Operations Masters for the RID, PDC and Infrastructure as well as the Global Catalogue.

Active Directory Users & Computers, right click the Domain and select Operations Masters. There will only be one server for each role, change as necessary.

Active Directory Sites & Services, find your site (sites?) or the Default-First-Site-Name if you haven't changed it. Find the server(s) and then the NTDS Settings, click properties and see who is a Global Catalogue Server. You can have multiple Global Catalogue Servers, but at least one...

HTH

Andy