> First of all there is a risk in everything, and I cannot tell you it > will work 100%, I don't know you network that well. > > So what have you got now, 2 DCs (the old one and the new one) running > together? > > If you have both DC's running then there should not be a problem with > running DCPROMO on the old server and demoting it to a member server. Mark I tried to demote the old server to a member server and got : The operation failed because : "The Directory Service failed to find a server to replicate off changes" .....bla bla Saud