problem in configuration additional domain controller

**sunil kumar verma** · 14-12-2008

hi friends

i have a single domain controller in my organization that is a global catalog also and i want to create the secoundry domain controller ( for backup purpose).so i want to know that what i should make the change on the primary domain controller to create the new secondry domain controller .
and second thing is that how many roles(FSMO roles) have the secondry domain controller and it will be global catalog or not .

thanks In advance

sunil kumar

**opaper** · 15-12-2008

its my understanding that the active directory 2k, and 2k3 for that matter no longer refer to primary and secondary, (or backup dc). they are all just domain controllers.

a few caveats to consider though. what type of forest and domain is this? if its a 2k domain and forest, you have to run adprep/forest and adprep/domain to enable 2k3 servers to act as dc's.

this is a good article to follow:

http://www.iunknown.com/000256.html

once you run dcpromo on the 2k3 server, it will ask you if this server will be dc for a new domain, or an existing domain. choose existing domain, and your all set.

other considerations though to consider: what exchange server are you running? if you are running exchange 2000, you may run into problems with exchange not getting active directory info from the 2k3 dc. thats my problem anyway, i had to go back to 2000 for the additional dc.

hope this helps you.