Re: Demoting BDC holding Infrastructure FSMO in SBS 2003 Domain

My gut says that you'll wind up flattening that other box

I've never had to deal with what your dealing with. I'm assuming you did not create this setup up originally.

You should go to technet.microsoft.com and search the KB on export DHCP this will explain how to do it and import back in and issues you may run into

I'd also recommend you do a search in the KB for tombstone for doing the cleanup


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"lucasno1" <lucasno1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1155893537.405747.223540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Cris,

Thanks again for the reply.

I had to force the transfer of the infrastructure role back to the SBS
server, no problems so far.

I didn't go ahead with the demotion of the BDC because it is not going
to demote gracefully, I will be forcing the demotion tonight probably.

The reason I cannot gracefully demote it is the fact that the BDC has
exceeded the tombstone lifecycle and it cannot transfer the changes
back to the SBS box, going back to the replication problem, this is
fine as no changes are made on the BDC but it is not allowing the
demotion because of this. Any ideas here?

The only problem with forcing it is the BDC is the DHCP and WINS server
also. I need to transfer these roles back to the SBS box before I can
do it without risking losing these services.

I know when you force a demotion DNS gets broken on the said server
(that's what I have read at least) but am not sure how it would affect
these services.

Also is there an easy way to transfer the current DHCP settings to the
SBS box, I can set up replication for WINS but am not sure about DHCP
and we have alot of reservations set up.

Thanks for your help mate



Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP) wrote:
> The standard product rules simply don't apply when it comes to SBS. SBS is designed to be the whole "enchilada". FSMO Roles, Global Catalog Server, DNS Server, DHCP SErver, WINS Server, RRAS Server, Exchange Server, and ISA Server if you are running Premium Edition, oh and I left out File and Print, SQL Server, Windows Sharepoint Services...whew!
>
> There's nothing wrong with having Additional DCs, they can be GCs, DNS Servers, etc. But the licensing for SBS is very clear about it being the First Server (holds the FSMO roles)
>
> Due to the tight integration of SBS not sure what you'll run into. This is the first time since I started hanging out here in 1998 that this has come up. You sure couldn't make another server the PDC in the SBS 4.0 (WinNT) days.
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> Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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> "lucasno1" <lucasno1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1155833589.049888.284190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP) wrote:
> > If somehow this has managed to happen, you might quite possible end up with a complete rebuild
> > SBS must, be design and fuctionality, be the first server at the root of the AD Forest/Domain and so it must hold the FSMO roles
> >
> > If someone has somehow managed to move them to another server and keep the SBS server running...well lets just say it shouldn't and the SBS server should be complaining all over the place
> >
> > You try to transfer them back using the tools and techniques outlined in Technet for transferring the FSMO roles
> >
> > But you have better make sure you have a verifiable tested complete backup or image of your SBS server
> >
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> > Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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> > Please do not respond directly to me, but only post in the newsgroup so all can take advantage

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