[windows2000] Re: PDC Emulator

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <JShonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:01:47 -0800

That's not entirely correct.  The PDC Emulator provides several services =
in Native Mode.   It's acts as a PDC for downlevel clients, it's the =
time source for the domain, and it also has a few other =
responsibilities.  Regardless of mixed/native mode.

Mixed mode simply allows existing NT 4.0 BDCs in the domain to exist.  =
(yes there are few other minor things with mixed-mode like TS Licensing =
but that exception was really to allow for W2k TS to run in a NT4.0 =
Domain)

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Etts, Russell [mailto:retts@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:25 PM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: PDC Emulator



Hi Rod

A PDC Emulator is a FSMO role used in a mixed domain to act like the PDC =
to
the NT 4.0 servers.

Thanks

Russell

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Falanga [mailto:rjfalanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:32 PM
To: 'Windows 2000 List'
Subject: [windows2000] PDC Emulator



I'm taking the 2154 class ("Implementing and Administering Microsoft
Windows 2000 Directory Services").  And, as I've mentioned on this list
before, I'm a Windows 2000 administer, by virtue of the fact that the
regular system administer has quit.

OK, so I'm asking what for most of you is a simple question.  In class,
the instructor has mentioned several times something called a "PDC
Emulator".  I know, from NT domains, that "PDC" stands for "Primary
Domain Controller".  From this class I'm getting the distinct feeling
that in a Windows 2000 Active Directory network, in native mode, that
there isn't a primary domain controller. =3D20

So, what is the "PDC Emulator"?

Rod
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