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Thank you all. Very relevant info....i have divided up the points since everyone did help me here. <br />
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Thanks again.<br />
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Hello Experts,<br />
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I have been tasked with setting up a new DC to replace an exisiting one. &nbsp;This is a Single forest environment with 2 DCs currently running W2K3 EE R2 Sp2 with branch offices with their own DCs(Same config). &nbsp;The DC i am replacing is currently in the main office. It is running DNS,DHCP and Printer server functions.<br />
I have built the new server, ran dcpromo, DNS replications is fine and also made this a GC. &nbsp;I ran DCDIAG to make sure replication is fine.<br />
My question is regarding FSMO roles. &nbsp;I ran ntdsutil on the server i have to replace to see the roles it had. &nbsp;It was pointing to the other DC. (production). &nbsp;So i am wondering are there any roles i should be transferring to the new server i have to replace. &nbsp;It seemed that there were no roles.<br />
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Thanks.<br />
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BigSquish. <br />

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Hello Experts,

I have been tasked with setting up a new DC to replace an exisiting one.  This is a Single forest environment with 2 DCs currently running W2K3 EE R2 Sp2 with branch offices with their own DCs(Same config).  The DC i am replacing is currently in the main office. It is running DNS,DHCP and Printer server functions.
I have built the new server, ran dcpromo, DNS replications is fine and also made this a GC.  I ran DCDIAG to make sure replication is fine.
My question is regarding FSMO roles.  I ran ntdsutil on the server i have to replace to see the roles it had.  It was pointing to the other DC. (production).  So i am wondering are there any roles i should be transferring to the new server i have to replace.  It seemed that there were no roles.

Thanks.

BigSquish. 


Thank you all. Very relevant info....i have divided up the points since everyone did help me here. 

Thanks again.



Windows Server 2003 FSMO role

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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