Andreas actually teased me with this at the second DEC in US (must have been 2003 in Scottsdale, Arizona), as I also wondered why the IFM would be required for this role. So after a good discussion about the IFM's functions it was clear there was absolutely no technical requirement that adprep /domainprep be performed on the IFM FMSO ;-)
The only reason the IFM was "chosen" to perform this "special" task is: they had to ensure that the domainprep will only be performed on a single DC in a domain and all the other FMSOs already had many more special tasks than the IFM - this is why the domainprep was bound to be executed on the IFM FSMO. /Guido -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura E. Sent: Montag, 29. August 2005 12:36 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep Yep, that was him. Drat, dunno why I had Luther in my head as being his first name. - L > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep > > Heavy German accent? I suspect that it was Andreas > Luther.... (and looks nothing like Guido....) > > And - it might have been DEC as Andreas was there for the Identity > Management (read:MIIS) portion of the conference. > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Hunter, Laura E. > Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep > > Oddly enough, this exact topic came up in a dinner > conversation at Tech Ed this year.[1] Luther...oh heck somebody remind me of his > last name...had apparently quizzed people with this one at a previous > conference (DEC?), only to utimately reveal that the answer was "You know how > people always ask you what the IM FSMO does? Well, now you can tell them that > it's responsible for running /domainprep." > > > > [1] Please hold the jokes about having dinner conversations > about Active Directory internals until the end, please. :-) > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tony Murray > > > Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:36 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > Does anyone know why the documentation suggests that adprep > > > /domainprep be run on the DC holding the IM FSMO role? I heard a > > > rumour to the effect that it was only because that DC is > > likely to be > > > less busy than the other DCs, but I'd like to know for sure. > > > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
