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Taking the last 2003 DC out of a 2008 R2 domain.

I need to take the last 2003 dc out of my 2008 R2 domain. I have transferred the fsmo roles and verified they have been transferred. We have also migrated to Exchange 2010. The dc fsmo roles transfer took place about 2 weeks ago and all logs and replication look good. We now have 2 2008 R2 Dcs both as GCs. The one thing I about forgot is transferring the time server role. However, several years back I set a GPO for time services at the domain level and it applied all DCs. I have check the registry of the 2008 DCs and the GPO is applied.  With this GPO applied is there any need to do any type of tranfer of time services? Seems that I can just demote the 2003 DC since the fsmo roles have been transferred.

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you should create a new time server (PDC role). it is possible to run AD without a time server but it is a real nightmare. when the time offset is more than 5 min. kerberos (default settings) just stops working.
just create a new tm server on the new pdc, change GPO and the network should be fine.

simple speaking - shortcuts are ok went you hiking  . . only
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Just make sure that your PDC emulator is pointing to a good time source.. All other DC's will sync with the PDC.
Here is the command to update time source (run it on the pdc emulator)

W32tm /config /manualpeerlist:<timesourcename/IP> /syncfromflags:manual /update

I would prefer that you shutdown the 2003dc for few days/hours and see if there are any issues apart from replication error then take a full backup of it and then destroy it.
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So the command still needs to be run on the PDC even wirh the GPO in effect? I would definitely shut it down for a week just as I did the old Exchange.
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