Hello all I think I have a simple Question but never the
less I need help with it.

When you setup the First server in the active directroy
Forrest it becomes the forrest root.I know that you can
transferr most all the roles to other DC in the Forrest
such as Rid, Pdc and infrastructure Master are there any
other roles that makeup the forrest root. For instance if
a machine that is the current Forrest root DC was to have
a critical problem and died what would be lost if the
Rid, Pdc and Infrastructure Master had been moved already
to a diffrent DC.

Any Help would be Great.
Steve

I assume you are talking about Win 2k?
See:
Using Ntdsutil.exe to Seize or Transfer FSMO Roles to a Domain Controller

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;255504

HOW TO: View and Transfer FSMO Roles in the Graphical User Interface

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;255690

Flexible Single Master Operation Transfer and Seizure Process

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;223787

FSMO Placement and Optimization on Windows 2000 Domain Controllers

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;223346

How to: Create or Move a Global Catalog in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313994





hth

DDS W 2k MVP MCSE


"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sorry I forgot the Config I am running a windows 2003
ent. As for my question I forgot to add the global
catalog has been enable on another DC already.

"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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What would be lost would be the Schema and Domain Naming operations masters
as they would be on the now dead machine. Both of these roles can be seized
to another DC in the forest root.
There are 5 operations masters in the forest root and 3 in each of its
children


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