We have two domains
in our forest. The "empty" root domain, and a resource domain where everything
else lives. The root domain has two DCs - one each in two different
sites.
Our main domain has
several DCs, and most of those are GCs as well. The sites containing the root
DCs each also have at least one resource domain DC, and at least one of
these DCs is a GC. In other words, all sites have at least one resource domain
DC and at least one of those is a GC as well.
My question is: can
I remove GC function from the two root DCs? I seem to recall reading that
at least one DC in a domain had to be a GC, but I can't find that requirement
now.
All DCs are server
2003. The forest is 2000 native mode.
Why do I want to do
this? We configure Outlook to use the "closest" GC. We want to insure that
Outlook can manage distribution lists (universal groups), and Outlook can
only do that if the GC is in the same domain as the group. We are currently
using a home-grown application to manage DL membership, but we'd like to switch
back to outlook.
