good point Brett - I'm not even sure where I picked that up. Probably nowhere - must have confused the acronym with that used for Install From Media... ;-) Yep, here it should be IM...
/Guido -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley Sent: Montag, 29. August 2005 13:41 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep IFM is an odd abbreviation of the Infrstructure Master role. I think IM is more typical. -B On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Grillenmeier, Guido wrote: > 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/ > 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/
