Re: SBS 2003 R2 BDC

You are correct. It is one of those things that is hard to explain when
lots of detail is required and the bdc no longer exists :)

SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:

Sorry to be picky Michael but the PDC emulator is equivalent to the PDC
rather than BDC role (as the name somewhat suggets). As one of the FSMO
roles the SBS must be PDC Emulator, making all additional DCs in an SBS2000
or later AD BDC's.

Some people (most in fact) are _BOUND_ to jump on this along the lines of
'in AD there are no PDC/BDC relationships, all DC's are peers'. Yeah right.

Your suggested fix is, of course, correct.

"Michael Jenkin [SBS-MVP]" <michael.jenkin@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uVmjVwVOIHA.5160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

Yes this is possible (bdc = PDC emulator in new speak). Is the 2003
server a member of the 2003 SBS domain?

When you ran DCpromo, is that when you got the Adprep error?

You would run the Adprep tool from CD2 of the R2 disk set
(\CMPNENTS\R2\ADPREP) on the SBS server,
then DCPROMO the R2 server into the domain.

Thanks



Mike Odryna wrote:

I am looking to setup a BDC for SBS. I have installed Server Standard
2003
R2 on the new machine. When I went to make it a BDC I got two errors.
One
said that I had to run ADPREP, and in the same window it said that the
two
versionswere not compatible.

Can a 2003 Standard Server 2003 R2 be a BDC for an SBS 2003 R2 Domain?
If
so what are the steps that I would have to follow?

Mike

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