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should you only want a second DC:<br />
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- reinstall it completely , run dcpromo to let it join the domain. replication will make a copy of your AD. read <a href="http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Managing-Active-Directory-FSMO-Roles.html" rel="ugc">http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Managing-Active-Directory-FSMO-Roles.html</a>&nbsp;for a good read about how you should distribute your FSMO roles.<br />
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- if you have any files on it that needs to be replicated, either use an tool like robocopy (<a href="http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html" rel="ugc">http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html</a>) or use DFS (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx</a>)<br />
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should you only want a second DC:

- reinstall it completely , run dcpromo to let it join the domain. replication will make a copy of your AD. read http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Managing-Active-Directory-FSMO-Roles.html [http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Managing-Active-Directory-FSMO-Roles.html] for a good read about how you should distribute your FSMO roles.

- if you have any files on it that needs to be replicated, either use an tool like robocopy (http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html [http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html]) or use DFS (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx])



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I cloned a win 2003 adv. server which also has exchange 2003 running on same server for disaster recovery purposes. The problem is I cannot have 2 servers with identical names on the network. I want to keep the backup server current with the main server. How do I accomplish this? &nbsp;Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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I cloned a win 2003 adv. server which also has exchange 2003 running on same server for disaster recovery purposes. The problem is I cannot have 2 servers with identical names on the network. I want to keep the backup server current with the main server. How do I accomplish this?  Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Rename a DC running on win 2003 adv. server

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