Dean Wells wrote:
That's only partially true, you're correct in that the option is made available in the UI during an IFM promotion if the backup used was from a GC ... but a GC can also be born directly out of a non-forest-creating DCpromo by modifying the "%windir%\system32\schema.ini" file.Assuming you're comfortable editing the file - 1. Prior to promotion, edit the schema.ini mentioned above a. search on [DEFAULTADDLMACHINE] 2. Notice the "Options=1" entry 5 or 6 lines above in the [DEFAULTFIRSTMACHINE] section a. this section controls the DCpromo's behavior during the creation of a new forest 3. Copy that entry into the [DEFAULTADDLMACHINE] section 4. Run DCpromo
Nice, thank You for this tip Dean -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL) http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
