question on FSMO roles

[chrism]

hello - we have 2 DCs running Win2003 in a single domain.
One of the DCs holds all 5 roles.
If this one DC goes down, then we are in trouble, right ?

Should I distribute some of the roles to the other DC ?

If so, which roles.

thank you.

chrism

 

[David Noorzad]

In a flat domain best thing to do is; make both your DC's
GC, have DNS with forwarders to your ISP....As for FSMO
roles make sure your best hardware has the FSMOs. and back
up everynight. read Q324801
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;324801&Product=winsvr2003

 

[Steve]

chrism

how to transfer the fsmo roles

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;324801

Details of Fsmo roles

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=197132

Excerpt from a posting from Cary earlier this week should cover it

"I would transfer the Schema Master and Domain Naming
Master to the same DC and the PDC Emulator, RID Master and Infrastructure
Master to the other one ( you always want to keep the PDC Emulator and RID
Master on the same DC ). You can run 'netdom query fsmo' on each DC to make
sure that it knows of the changes. BTW - replmon will also do this for
you."

and I can't disagree, it's how we run our single forest / domain
search this group for the thread
Re: Standard Procedure for transferring FSMO roles (PLEASE COMMENT)

rgds
Steve