Re: What are FSMO roles?

> but I need to make
> sure that downtime on the SBS2000 doesn't take down the production
> network.

If this is your goal... and everything those 11 workstations need are in the
Win2k3 Server, then I would say you have a *very* good reason to make it a
2nd DC.

Now, take into account that while this is not extremely complicated, this is
also not a 5 minute procedure and that for this to be able to work you need
to make the DC also a GC and DNS server (plus change the DNS on the
workstations so now you have 2 servers instead of 1). Apart from that
remember that adding those jobs to the Win2k3 will take a toll on its
performance (which might -or not- be noticeable for the SQL users).

Cheers,

--
Javier [SBS MVP]
www.msmvps.com/javier
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