Re: Migrating to Windows 2003 Server

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From: Tomasz Onyszko (T.Onyszko_at_w2k.pl)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:14:23 +0100

Allison wrote:
> 1. I assume the only thing that happens when you turn off the Netlogon
> service is that users cannot authenticate to the DC, correct?

In general - Yes

> 2. If the DC is in this state, can I demote the DC to a member server or do
> I have to have the Netlogon service running in order for it to demote
> properly?

Netlogon should be running - but one of the first steps of dcpromo when
demotation takes place is to stop netlogon 

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