Re: PDC/BDC

There is no such thing as a BDC in AD.

AD DCs operate in multimaster mode.

SBS is a beast of it's own. You might get a better answer asking in
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs


hth
DDS

"New Administrator" <New Administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:64ACEED6-5FB3-4714-AFE6-F11CE7E27590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a SBS 2003 server thats running AD and Sharepoint services. I
recently
purchased a SBS 2003 r2. I would like to configure the new computer as a
BDC.
I wasn't exactly sure how to do it. can someone please steer me on the
right
path.


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