Mike- You certainly can demote all but DC01, but whether there will be any problems or whether you should are less clear. First, if you demote all but DC01 and then something happens to DC01, your domain is dead until you can restore from a backup. That's probably a bad thing.
Is DC01 a global catalog, and if it ends up as the sole GC will that be sufficient to handle client and Exchange loads? How many users do you have, and what's the network layout? Is this a single domain forest? If not, then running your Infrastructure Master role on DC01 *may* create problems if all of the DCs in the forest are not GCs. Hunter ________________________________ From: Michael McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:22 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Removing AD from Exchange Server + Hey guys, been reading the list for a while now and have to first say thanks.. There's a tonne of info provided here.. I have a few DC's at my primary site that I want to demote.. here's an output of an nltest on my site: C:\> nltest /server:dc01 /dclist:xxx Get list of DCs in domain 'xxx' from '\\BACKUP01'. vfc1.xxx.yyy [DS] Site: Default-First-Site-Name dc01.xxx.yyy [PDC] [DS] Site: Default-First-Site-Name backup01.xxx.yyy [DS] Site: Default-First-Site-Name MAIL01.xxx.yyy [DS] Site: Default-First-Site-Name The command completed successfully vfc1 is about to be decommissioned, backup01 used to be the PDC at one point in time (before I started), MAIL01 is our exchange server.. Will there be any problems in demoting all but dc01? (Please bear with me, I am a programmer that has to wear the network support hat every once and a while) Thanks in advance, Mike List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
