Re: What are FSMO roles?

This is an old message I was going back over... I don't know if javier
is still around, so anyone, please feel free to answer.


I have now added the new 2K3 server into the SBS2000 domain and
everything is swimmingly fine, but this question is regarding Javier
saying he wouldn't make the new server a DC without a good reason.

There are 11 workstations in the domain that use the SQL Server on the
2003 server and do all their work there. They have no reason (save 1
workstation) to ever hit the SBS2000 server except to authenticate and
get their GPO settings.

The SBS Server is business hours, whereas the 2K3 is on 7-day, 16-hour
production schedule. Requiring the SBS to authenticate in reality puts
in on the same 7x16 schedule.

Isn't this a good enough reason to make the 2K3 a DC? That way if the
SBS server goes down (or the fiber link to it does) the 11
workstations can still authenticate? (DHCP and DNS are non-issues)

Is there some terrible reason I shouldn't dcpromo the 2K3?



On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:56:19 -0500, "Javier Gomez [SBS MVP]"
<javier_gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yeah... thanks NickZ for pointing that out. I totally missed that the OP
>mentioned that it was an SBS2k box. There is no connectcomputer wizard on
>SBS2k, as SG mentioned you can just join the domain manually at any point.
>
>Again, I want to stress out that DCPromo and/or extending the AD schema are
>only necessary if you want to make the 2nd server a DC. Which I wouldn't do
>unless I had a good reason for it.

.

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