retiring the 1st DC in the domain

[Owen@7]

I am running a 2000 domain, all servers run Win2k /SP4.
I would like to retire the 1st domain server and use the server at a small
remote site
which is not part of the domain. As I write this, this machine currently
runs all 5 FSMO roles.

My qustion is, how shoudl I transfer these?
Are there any problems even if the transfer is succesful?
Any suggestion in general?

Regards,

 

[Meinolf Weber]

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I am running a 2000 domain, all servers run Win2k /SP4.
I would like to retire the 1st domain server and use the server at a
small
remote site
which is not part of the domain. As I write this, this machine
currently
runs all 5 FSMO roles.
My qustion is, how shoudl I transfer these?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255690

Are there any problems even if the transfer is succesful?

No, but before i would run dcdiag, netdiag and replmon to check for errors
in your domain.

Any suggestion in general?

Do not forget to make another server Global catalog server BEFORE http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313994

Also check that you have DNS server running.

 

[Herb Martin]

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No, but before i would run dcdiag, netdiag and replmon to check for errors
in your domain.

And again after to insure things are STILL corrrect.

Do not forget to make another server Global catalog server BEFORE
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313994

Also check that you have DNS server running.

And that clients -- including DCs -- are set to use a DIFFERNT DNS server if
you are retiring a DNS server.

Same goes for WINS Servers too.

It is BEST to manually move the Single Master Roles (aka FSMO) to another
DC (or DCs) manually -- this way you KNOW it was done AND you know
WHERE the roles are now held rather than let the systems decide
(semi-randomly)
where to move them.

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