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There is no issue as you have other domain controllers.
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There is no issue as you have other domain controllers.

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Hi, <br />
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We have serveral domain controllers in our environment. There is one that i need to perfrom a hardware update, therefore it will require a reboot. This specific controller does not contain any fismo roles and it is a global catalog - we have several other global catalogs in our domain. <br />
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Question is if i restart it will there be any issues, there may be some workstations that authenticated to the domain via this controller, will those workstations have any issues if the controller is shut down?<br />
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thank you in advance, <br />
Kelly
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Hi, 

We have serveral domain controllers in our environment. There is one that i need to perfrom a hardware update, therefore it will require a reboot. This specific controller does not contain any fismo roles and it is a global catalog - we have several other global catalogs in our domain. 

Question is if i restart it will there be any issues, there may be some workstations that authenticated to the domain via this controller, will those workstations have any issues if the controller is shut down?

thank you in advance, 
Kelly

Restarting a domain controller

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