Re: Replacing a domain controller...

"" wrote:
> 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.

When demoting a DC that holds FSMO roles it trys to transfer the FSMO
roles to other available DCs. However it is a best practice to do it
yourself through the NTDSUTIL or through the MMCs

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