No you don't need to stop the netlogon service and no you really
shouldn't need to do this in a specific order. The PDC will likely be in
your list twice when you look at the actual record that is returned by
WINS (but not in the Windows management tools) because WINS should
return both the 1C and 1B (Domain Master Browser) when you ask for the
1C (though the 1B entry will be listed as 1C in that return set
obviously). You can easily see it with anything that will do a real WINS
query for you like nmblookup or by looking at an actual trace of the
query... You possibly won't see it twice if you happen to have >25 DCs
because WINS will only return the last 25 entries for a group record but
with the 1C it will add in the 1B again so you definitely get the PDC.
This really should be a non-event, I have done this many times, probably
not hundreds of times but well into the tens. My recommendation is to
have a script that calls the commands and not doing it by hand. That way
the whole thing should take seconds.
--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net
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