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Exchange 2010 on a DC & demoting

I have an Exchange 2010 box that was the only box in a domain so naturally it was the domain controller. We are now putting in a new server that we want to be the DC and run DNS for our facility and demoting the Exchange server. I need some advise on demoting the Exchange server. Can I do this? Will I create a mess? Any links to good articles on this subject would help.

Thanks in advance.

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Theresa Parrett

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Ok - Thanks for the quick responses. Is there anything I should do for my domain since I now have 2 domain controlers and I want my non-exchange box to be the "head" DC. Should I be making it the operations master?

Just as a little background...I'm a Netware person moving into Windows and in the Netware environment we have master's read-write's, etc. so I might be making too much out of this new Domain Controller and maybe there's nothing I need to do.

Thanks again for your help.

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Rajith and leew are right see this below

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719.aspx

Lee W, MVP

I know extremely little about netware so aside from understanding you're not terribly knowledgeable about Windows, I have no idea what that environment was like.

In AD, there is no "main DC" or "Primary DC or "PDC" - everything is a DC. Everything has a writable copy of the AD Database There are 5 roles that help govern the domain and allocation of resources, but these roles can be split amongst up to 5 servers. They don't have to be. You can move them off the old server, but I see real benefit in doing so... or not doing so.

Exchange 2010 on a DC &amp; demoting

Exchange 2010 on a DC & demoting