Hi Mark, PDC is holding alls FSMO roles and exchange is pointing to it. Now is it safe to demote exchange from being a controller? Appreciated ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Fugatt Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:07 AM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: remove dc role from exchange And this is not supported by Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822179 Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Limited Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt Dedicated to proactively supporting Microsoft's enterprise Customers If you have any feedback about my work, please let either myself or my manager Andy Gitsham know at andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Feedback%20on%20Mark%20Fugatt%20(Ex change%20DSE)> or telephone +44 118 909 3233 ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ara Avvali Sent: 12 April 2006 23:38 To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] remove dc role from exchange Hello everyone, Just to be cleared! There are 3 server and all 3 are domain controllers. PDC,MAIL,BDC. PDc is holding the FSMO rule. If I want to demote exchange box a domain master, all I need to do is running dcpromo ,right? Exchange 2003 running on server 2003. Appreciated :-)