Yeah, I'm in the same boat now. Got a requirement for fully autonomous DC
deployment with a largish DIT. Single domain forest so everything is GC. I
was frustrated to find out that one of the scripting guys told me that that
option didn't work. I plan on working round this by promoting the DC (using
a systems management tool, i.e. a package that runs DCPROMO with an answer
file), rebooting and then running another script that connects to local DC
and flips the options attribute on the NTDS object in question. We'll then
wait for RootDSE's isGlobalCatalogReady to return true before moving on...
It's still not clear to me why that switch doesn't work. There's no
dependency on IFM (although if you are doing an IFM from a GC it's nice to
use the restored PAS) or anything other than DNS and communications
really...
--Paul
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Automating GC promotion during dcpromo
Thanks Dean, altho I was looking for a way to automate the 'promotion'
to GC for *every* DC, not just the first (which is a GC by default, as
you point out.)
I have a script which can achieve the above but was hoping it could be
achieved via the answer file.
I just hope this is finally exposed in Longhorn ...
neil
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Automating GC promotion during dcpromo
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
Regards.
Dean
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Dean Wells
MSEtechnology
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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Automating GC promotion during dcpromo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> According to an article I read recently, a DC may be set as a GC
> automatically using the answer file entry 'ConfirmGC=Yes'.
>
> However, another technet article implies that this I only relevant
> if the DC is being built using a backup and not over the wire.
>
> Anyone have any views or experiences with this?
This was discussed here some time ago if I remember correctly - this
option is valid only with install from media DC promotion.
--
Tomasz Onyszko
http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL)
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN)
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