Removing Origional PDC

[cgolden553]

We are currently running a Windows mixed mode environment with both 2000 and 2003 servers. The origional PDC is a Windows 2000 box. We want to reformat the server and reinstall it as a Windows 2003 Server. What is required to move these existing services to the new DC:

Master Browser, NTP time Source, IAS Access Server Auth, Global Catalog, Operations Masters, PDC Emulator, Rid Master, and Schema Master.

Finding documentation on this has been difficult at best.

Thanks!!!

 

[pagy]

Transferring FSMO roles;

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

Move or create a global catalog;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313994

By default all member machines sync with the PDCe for time unless you have set a specific server in a group policy or something.... so by moving the PDCe FSMO roles member machines will sync their time with whatever server holds that role.

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCTS:Active Directory
MCTS:Network Infrastructure
MCTS:Applications Infrastructure

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
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[Davetoo]

You had trouble finding an answer to one of the most asked and most highly documented subjects for Windows Servers?

We thinks you didn't look. ;-)

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!