Re: Windows 2000 as a BDC with SBS 4.5 as PDC

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I don't know the answer to this (I don't even know what it means) but take a step back and look at it .... haven't we become a jargon/acronym based society.

DianeA wrote:

Can a Windowss 2000 server be a BDC for a SBS4.5 PDC. I'm taking my SBS offline and I see the shortest path to get to Windows 2000 server would be to bring one online as BDC and promoting it to PDC. We only require the accounts and SQL 7.0 from the SBS. 
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