RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000

  • From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:54:24 -0700

Actually, the problems you are having may be because Exchange is still
seeing that server as a GC.

Have you gone through the Exchange configuration and made sure it was using
the correct server as a GC?

BTW, it is only one GC per site. If you have one domain but multiple sites,
you would want a GC in each site.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
eServices For You
www.eservicesforyou.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Shulaev [mailto:vadim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:35 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> I have been thinking about it for a while now...
> I have Exchange 2000 sp3 running on 2K server which is also DC2 in the
> domain. It is not a GC or anything, just a secondary DC in the domain.
> I installed DC on the server first and then Exchange software.
> Everything seems to running good, except i have some replication issues
> with GC DC. Someone previously made both of the DC's GC and AD was getting
> confused, but i made the chages back as you can have only one GC server
> per domain.
> 
> Now i am having all kinds of "strange" issues with replication and i was
> wondering if i can demote this server to memeber server, remove AD from it
> and later on proote it back to DC. This should cleanup my connections and
> regenerate them again.
> 
> If i do demote this server which has Exch2000 on it, will the mail server
> sill work without DC on it??? Have anyone done this before???
> 
> Vadim.
> 
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