Re: Removing PDC from Windows 2003 Domain

I have 2 new DCs for the domain and both hold the global catalog. Is it ok
to transfer the Infrastructure master to one of these - it says when I try
that it shouldn't be on same machine as a GC ?

Thanks.


"Mr Roflcopter" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steve Winter wrote:
>> I've recently added 2 windows 2003 domain controllers to a Windows 2000
>> domain and enabled the Global Catalog storage on these. I've removed one
>> of the 2 Windows 2000 domain controllers from the domain by simply
>> uninstalling Active Directory by using DCPROMO (I assume this was ok -
>> seemed to work fine) but I now want to remove the Windows 2000 PDC from
>> the domain as I'm getting errors (currently the server is just shutdown).
>> Is it going to be best for me to uninstall AD from the PDC or should I do
>> it another way?
>
> Make sure that all the FSMO roles have been transferred to the new DCs and
> then use DCPROMO to demote the old 2000 server.
>
> It would be a good idea to do a metadata cleanup when you've done that,
> too.
>
> --
> Chris M.


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