Re: Operations Master Role Assignment

From: Jimmy Andersson [MVP] (jimmy_noSpam__at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:40:53 +0100

Since you're having a single domain you can make all DCs GC. It will not
have an impact on you IM.

Regards,
/Jimmy 

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Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB
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"Eric Payne" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message
news:u7Cocrj9DHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I currenttly have a windows NT domain that I want to upgrade to a windows
> 2003 AD domain. I will only need one domain, tree and forest.
> The current domain is fairly small, only about 70 users and 40 computers
and
> 15 servers.
>
> I have 1 NT PDC and 1 NT BDC (currently old servers).
> The PDC is a DHCP, DNS, WINS server and also houses the users directories.
> I have 2 brand new dell servers that I want to be the new ADC servers for
> the new AD domain (same name as NT domain).
>
> Here is what I would like to do.
>
> Do a domain sync and take the NT BDC offline for disater recovery
> Do an inplace upgrade on the PDC and install AD.
> Take a new Dell server (which already has windows 2003 on it) and install
AD
> on it.
> Take the next Dell server and install AD on it.
>
> From here I want to demote the original PDC to a member server, but leave
> DNS, DHCP, Wins and users folders on it (I want to eventually move this to
> the new servers, but I think this might be to much to do in one night).
> Eventually these services will be moved to the new dell server, and the
> current server will be decomissioned.
>
> Since the original PDC server will have the global catelog since it was
the
> first AD server, how and when should I move it to one of the new dell
> servers?
> When should I move the Operations Master Roles?
> Which Role should be on each server.
>
> I was just going to be all the roles on the first new dell server, but
after
> doing a little reading it is not recomended to put one of the operations
> master role (Infrastructure master role) on the same server as the global
> catalog server.
>
> So of these roles, which one should be on which server
> Schema Master
> Domain Naming Master
> RID Master
> PDC emulator
> Infrastructor Master
>
>
> Server 1 (New Dell)        Server 2 (New Dell)
> DHCP                            Public Folders
> DNS                               Print Server
> WINS
> Home folders
>
>
>
>

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