Promoting/Demoting DC

[Alex K]

What is the best way to promote a newly installed DC to be
the master DC (primary) in an existing forest/domain?

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Alex,

Please understand that there is no more 'primary' or 'secondary' in WIN2000
Active Directory.

I am not sure that I understand your question. There is not really anything
similar to what you are wanting to do. Well, I guess that you could make
sure that this DC holds all of the FSMO Roles (the Schema Master, the Domain
Naming Master, the PDC Emulator, the RID Master and the Infrastructure
Master ) as well as making sure that it is a Global Catalog Server as well.

What is it that you want?

Cary

 

[Kevin Bowersock]

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If you do in fact want to move the roles to a particular box these Links
should help :

283595 HOW TO: Change the Role Owner of the Operations Master After a
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=283595

255690 HOW TO: View and Transfer FSMO Roles in the Graphical User Interface
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255690

255504 Using Ntdsutil.exe to seize or transfer FSMO roles to a domain
controller
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

223787 Flexible Single Master Operation Transfer and Seizure Process
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223787

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