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 L Fugatt Pentech Office Solutions Inc Rochester, NY www.4mcts.com Tel: 716 586 3890 Fax: 716 249 0316 Cell: 585 576 4750 For MSN Messenger add mark@xxxxxxxxx to your contacts list For answer to your Microsoft Exchange questions visit www.msexchange.org "In God we trust. Everybody else we verify using PGP!" -----Original Message----- From: Saud [mailto:saud@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:32 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: AD No way to backup alone http://www.MSExchange.org/ - Re-Vamped! >make sure the member server is configured as a DNS >client since AD relies on DNS. Or preferable u can >install DNS service on it. >Then can u ping the DC from the member server? Try all >these and let me know what happens. >Are u tring to install an additional DC. Olomo I am trying to install the additional server that will be a replacement for the DC. I have done the 1st part . The problem was that the additional server had an entry in the network setup for the suffix of the server which was the domain name of the old DC. I removed it and the process was smooth with no problems. Now,I need to use the additional server as the primary DC and remove the old one. Mark explained that I can run DCPROMO on the old server and make it stand alone to do that. I hope that works without problems or else I will lose both servers. So,Mark shall I proceed with this ? no risk at all ? By the way,the old server has E2k installed. Saud ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: mark@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')