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Transferring FSMO Rules to new server

Hello all...

My 'main' server is experiencing problems with its RAID drive. We are taking it down this weekend to remedy. To cover all of my bases, I have added a new server to the network, and made it an AD server with the Global Catalog installed.

I am now in the process of moving the roles to that server. I have transferred over:

RID Master, PDC Emulator, Domain Naming Master, Schema Master (all with no problem)

When I go to change the Infrastructure Master, I get a warning:

(this server) is a Global Catalog (GC) server.The infratructure operations master role should not be transferred to a GC server...please see help, etc.

Are you certain you want to transfer?

Should I transfer it? The other server that it is currently on is a GC server. Are there any consequences, etc. I should watch out for when I do?

Insight appreciated,

Thanks,

TN

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tnorman

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Everyone...thanks for the feedback on this. I get the impression that the Infrastructure Role is mostly for multi-domain companies, which this one is not.

Let's say that the gods are willing, and the problem with my 'main' server is simply a defective drive in the RAID and it comes back no problem (after being replaced). I now have

- 4 roles on one server
- 1 role (Infra) on another server
- GC on both servers

If you only have two AD controllers, (as noted above), where's the redundancy of for the GC if I only have it in one place? Is the role distribution more important than GC?

I already got this company to by a separate server for redundancy...they will really question why I would need two more.

I realize I am not asking any specific questions here, but am looking for 'best practices' in a W2K3 network environment with two servers that have AD.

Thanks,

TN

tnorman

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Did the reboot this am, and oddly enough, the server came back fully functional (i.e. no disk problems.)

However, good info above. Thanks everyone for their input.

TN

TheCleaner

Thanks for the assist points, happy to help out.