Win2k PDC lost

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Eoin O'Beara

Hi all,
A company called me earlier to say that their PDC was running on a
desktop PC, and the IDE drive crashed big time (cannot read at all), and not
even a backup. What is the easiest way to promote a BDC to PDC? I tried it
but couldn't get it working.

Thanks
 
There is no PDC/BDC in Active Directory - the DCs are peers.
You will need to seize the FSMO roles onto the other DC using ntdsutil and
also make sure the other DC is a global catalog server...then you'll need to
remove the old server from AD.

See if http://www.akomolafe.com/docs/xferfsmos.htm helps.

Tell these folks to invest in some decent server-class hardware (with
hardware RAID that can make use of hot spares) and always make sure they
have good backups.

If you're referring to a Windows NT domain, you're in the wrong newsgroup -
but you can promote the BDC to a PDC in server manager (I think - it's been
aaaaages)
 
That worked a treat, The RAID5 file server is now the "PDC" (in NT speak),
and authentication is up and running, which it wasn't before for the NAS.

Many thanks,

Eoin.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Glad it's running -it looks scarier than it is, doesn't it?
That worked a treat, The RAID5 file server is now the "PDC" (in NT
speak), and authentication is up and running, which it wasn't before
for the NAS.

Many thanks,

Eoin.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
There is no PDC/BDC in Active Directory - the DCs are peers.
You will need to seize the FSMO roles onto the other DC using
ntdsutil and also make sure the other DC is a global catalog
server...then you'll need to remove the old server from AD.

See if http://www.akomolafe.com/docs/xferfsmos.htm helps.

Tell these folks to invest in some decent server-class hardware (with
hardware RAID that can make use of hot spares) and always make sure
they have good backups.

If you're referring to a Windows NT domain, you're in the wrong newsgroup -
but you can promote the BDC to a PDC in server manager (I think -
it's been aaaaages)
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