[THIN] Re: Demoted a pdc to a bdc in a 2003 enviorment.
- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:55:30 -0400
I am so sorry I started this part of the thread. :(
On 10/5/05, Braebaum, Neil <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> > Sent: 05 October 2005 16:59
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Demoted a pdc to a bdc in a 2003 enviorment.
> >
> > Bring up Server Manager or any other NT domain utility and
> > all of your AD controllers (except for PDCe) will be labeled
> > as BDCs...
>
> That's simply because any NT domain utility doesn't understand AD, and
> AD provides backward compatibility.
>
> Doesn't mean that because the NT domain utility says so, that it's the
> truth, though.
>
> > For all downlevel clients they will see and
> > authenticate with these DCs as if they were BDCs.
>
> Agreed.
>
> That doesn't make them so, though.
>
> > The downlevel client itself can't distinguish between a W2k
> > DC acting like a BDC or a NT 4 BDCs.
>
> So, that doesn't make them BDCs, though, just because that's how
> downlevel clients *perceive* them.
>
> > Also, NT 4 BDCs are
> > able to participate in a mixed-mode AD environment.
>
> And? Mixed mode was only there to provide transition from an NT domain
> to AD.
>
> > Perhaps it is all semantics... Look at it from a NT Domain
> > point of view, it is... Look at it from an AD point of view,
> > it isn't. Some domains are mixed, others are native.
>
> Regardless, AD DCs are not BDCs. They are simply DCs. Some are more
> equal than others - some are running FSMOs, some are bridgeheads, some
> are GCs.
>
> What they aren't, is synonymous to the terms that were used in the NT
> domain model, and the PDCe role is exactly that - an emulated role, used
> to provide downlevel compatibility, and also to provide a logical place
> where referrals can be sent.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
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