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I will be retiring a 2003 domain after 2008 is up and running so I wasn't sure if there was a particular one that acted as a primary. Thanks
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I will be retiring a 2003 domain after 2008 is up and running so I wasn't sure if there was a particular one that acted as a primary. Thanks

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Based on your question you simply transfer the roles. When you are transferring the roles you need to make sure that for the PDC role you have to set it up with an external time source. <br />
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Setup External Time Source for PDC<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042</a><br />
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Will.
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Based on your question you simply transfer the roles. When you are transferring the roles you need to make sure that for the PDC role you have to set it up with an external time source.

Setup External Time Source for PDC
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042]

Will.

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This is just an additional one for right now but if I wanted to make it a primary later down the road do I need to run dcpromo again?
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This is just an additional one for right now but if I wanted to make it a primary later down the road do I need to run dcpromo again?

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