How do you set up a Global Catalog server?

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Does anyone have any brief instructions as to how to define an existing
Win2K DC as a GC?

Thanks.
 
open AD sites and services.
browse to the servers NTDS settings container.
sites/sitename/servers/servername/ntdssettings
Go to the properties of NTDS settings.
check the box on the general tab to promote to GC.
 
What if the box doesnt exist? WIn2003.

Glenn LeCheminant said:
open AD sites and services.
browse to the servers NTDS settings container.
sites/sitename/servers/servername/ntdssettings
Go to the properties of NTDS settings.
check the box on the general tab to promote to GC.
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I am sure that there is something behind this question.

If the box does not exist then you clearly can not make it a Global Catalog
Server. Now, the box probably does not exist because it is not a Domain
Controller. All Global Catalog Servers are Domain Controllers but not all
Domain Controllers are Global Catalog Servers.

Does this help?

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