adding an additional domain controller

[mark]

To add an addtional domain controller to an existing AD
domain - do I have to install the ADC first on the new
server connecting to the existing domain?

The instructions for adding a domain controller says -
you must install active directory...is the ADC what
they're talking about?

Thanks very much

 

[David Adner]

You run dcpromo on the member server, specifying that it's joining an
existing domain, providing credentials, etc. Be sure the server is
pointed to a DNS server that holds the AD related records.

 

[mark]

Thanks a bunch - do I run dcpromo from the "run" command
line? Is it a wizard? All I do is run dcpromo and it
asks me for information?

 

[David Adner]

Yes, and it's a wizard. You may want to visit www.microsoft.com/technet
and read up on AD before going too much further. Wizard's can be
dangerous, too.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Mark,

David is leading you down the right path so I will comment only on your
question about the ADC.

The ADC is the 'Active Directory Connector'. It is most typically used in
an Exchange environment. that is to say, in a WINNT 4 / Exchange 5.5
environment that is being upgraded to WIN2000. You see, the differences -
in Exchange versions - are great.

For example, in a WINNT 4.0 / Exchange 5.5 you have two separate Databases:
one for WINNT 4.0 and one for the "Exchange stuff". This changes
tremendously in WIN2000/Exchange 2000 as all of the "Exchange stuff" is now
contained within the Active Directory. This ADC helps synchronize the
databases.

So, as you can see the ADC does not have anything to do with the actual
upgrade of a WINNT 4.0 PDC to a WIN2000 DC. Nor does it have anything to do
with taking a WIN2000 Member Server and making it a WIN2000 Domain
Controller. That, as David has told you, is accomplished by running
DCPROMO.

HTH,

Cary