"Martin S." <mart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:11k8cukaqcgh1e1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi all,
>
> We have two domain controllers on our network, we are going to replace the
> oldest one, which is also the "root" domain controller. When I use dcpromo
> to de-activate the "root" DC will this also transfer the FSMO roles onto
> the other domain controller or do I still need to run ntdsutil to manually
> transfer the FSMO roles before running dcpromo?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin.
I recall having problems when I didn't explicitly transfer the roles before
decommissioning our old domain controller, so I would advise transferring
these manually.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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