Re: Change of Authentication DCs

except for the FSMO roles, there is nothing like master/backup DCs in AD. All DCs are equal. In your situation I would not do anything and leave everything as is. AD/DNS by default distributes the load between DCs in a site.

What is the point of pointing everyone to one DC and not use the others?

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"SK-TECH" <SKTECH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DDBCD668-436E-4B91-816D-D90ECBCE8358@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The master DC and 3 more are located in Site A.
All other DCs are located at their respective Sites.

"Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]" wrote:

how are all DCs located site wise? meaning: all in same site or in different
sites?

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"SK-TECH" <SKTECH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We had a power outage and the master DC holding all the FSMO roles was
> down
> for 30 minutes. We had 3 other DCs online that were not affected by the
> power
> outage, so they were the DCs that were authenticating users and > computers.
> The problem we are facing is this; the master DC shows that it the
> authenticating DC is one of the DCs that weren't affected by the power
> outage. Also, all user login show one of these DCs as the > authenticating
> DCs.
> How do I get all users, computers, and servers to authenticate to the
> master
> DC and not the backup DCs?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> sK



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