Re: SBS and FSMO Roles

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But you can.. it is a proceedure that is well documented in the process
called Swing Migration, and since the owner of that process went to all the
trouble to figure it out, I will not give away his solution. But he might.
Contact him at www.sbsmigration.com

Regards

Anna Clark


"LincolnIT" <LincolnIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I always thought that SBS can only have 1 DC until I read some articles
that
said otherwise. Now it is also stated that only the SBS server can hold
the
FSMO roles and in the event of a disaster recovery you can seize the roles
to
another DC.

Hopefully someone can enlighten me on this....If I'm in a DR situation
because my SBS box is dead then obviously I can't seize the FSMO
roles.....so
whats the purpose of a 2nd DC then?

The way I look at it is I can't authenticate users when the SBS is down
what
is the 2nd DC actually doing for us?






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