Yep, That?s right, since a Global Catalog is needed in order to replicate the information from the original DC to a new DC. Syed Muqeemuddin Senior Network Administrator Saudi International Petrochemical Company Al-Khobar; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tel: +9663-358-9000 Extn-136 -----Original Message----- From: Zentarra, Marco [mailto:marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:49 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] AW: RE: Global Cataloug Server?! http://www.MSExchange.org/ we´ve set up a new DC and replicated it with the new one (ok,the other way round) and everything looks fine (can access the active directory from both DCs,the new and the old one) actually, our "last" DC (this one, whicht didnt get the headcrash today) had the global catalog,aight? marco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Muqeemuddin Syed [mailto:muqeems@xxxxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 13:42 An: [ExchangeList] Betreff: [exchangelist] RE: Global Cataloug Server?! http://www.MSExchange.org/ Marco, The global catalog server is the only machine that holds all the information about your active directory domain. To set up a new DC and replicate the information, please note that you will need atleast one global catalog server on the domain, since that is the only machine that holds information about your domain. Restore the crashed server from tape backups.. if you have any. Syed Muqeemuddin Senior Network Administrator Saudi International Petrochemical Company Al-Khobar; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tel: +9663-358-9000 Extn-136 -----Original Message----- From: Zentarra, Marco [mailto:marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:55 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Global Cataloug Server?! http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi all! tody early in the morning one of our domain controllers had a headcrash :-( our second admin said that the "gobal cataloug server" was on it 1. what is a global cataloug server? 2. can we just set up a new DC, and replicate it with the left one? (we had 2) the outer admin said that he think that die GCS is only on ONE DC in a domain.,.. TIA Mit freundlichen Grüßen Marco Zentarra Systemadministrator ONLine Distributions AG Unna - München - Dresden Heinrich-Hertz-Str. 4 D-59423 Unna Fon 02303 - 98601-305 Fax 02303 - 98601-601 eMail marco.zentarra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web http://www.communication-companies.de ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------