As a person who tests/patches a bunch of single DCs.... I've never seen a "patch" kill a server.

Driver update may and has, yes.
Impair functionality of the server, yes.

But kill it completely? Microsoft tests patches ahead of time and they would find ahead of time if basic functionality of a DC would be nailed.

But if the server dies... it was probably on the emergency list prior to patching. Rebooting the box first ensures that you find these 'hospital bound' servers.

Almeida Pinto, Jorge de wrote:
the reason is that is a DC dies during the patching you do not have to seize 
the roles....IMHO, I prefer transfering over seizing
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Strongosky
Sent: Thu 2006-08-17 16:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.


I cornfused is this a standard practice as I thought you did not want to move the FMSO roles back and forth. john

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, 
Jorge de
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.


in addition to that....
DC1 having FSMOset1 and DC2 having FSMOset2
transfer FSMOset1 from DC1 to DC2
apply patches to DC1 and reboot and check everything (event logs DCdiag, etc)
if everything OK!
transfer FSMOset1 and FSMOset2 from DC2 to DC1
apply patches to DC2 and reboot and check everything (event logs DCdiag, etc)
if everything OK!
transfer FSMOset2 from DC1 to DC2
voila (that's french)...done! ;-)
jorge

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        Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 01:52
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        Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.
        
        
        It doesn't matter.

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        From: John Strongosky
        Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 4:49 PM
        To: [email protected]
        Subject: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.
        
        
        We have our FMSO roles split between 2 dc's. They are Schema 
Master/Domain Tree Operator on 1 and on 2,  the roles PDC Emulator/Rid 
Pool/Intrastate on the other. After I apply the patches from Microsoft what is 
the beat practices for the boot order...or does it matter?
1. Remote DC/GC's first
        2. no. 1
        3. then no 2.
thanks


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