Demote a BDC to a Member Server?

John · External Since: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 4

I just upgraded my PDC to 2000 AD. Can I demote my BDC's that are NT to
Member Servers? If so, how?

Scott Harding · External Since: Oct 03, 2006 Posts: 21

You cannot do this Natively without reinstalling the operating system. There
is a 3rd party tool called Upromote that works good and is only like $99
last time I checked.

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Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, Net +, A+
MVP - Windows Server Networking

"John" <bechtj.RemoveThis@co.delaware.pa.us> wrote in message
news:enF1GtkfHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I just upgraded my PDC to 2000 AD. Can I demote my BDC's that are NT to
>Member Servers? If so, how?
>

Joshua Bolton · External Since: Apr 11, 2006 Posts: 62

You can't even do it now with Upromote. When you upgraded the PDC you also
changed the BDCs since you changed the Domain. For example before you went
to AD you could take a BDC offline and promote it to PDC. Now you can't do
that. The BDCs are only listening to the PDC emulator on the AD DC

"Scott Harding" wrote:

> You cannot do this Natively without reinstalling the operating system. There
> is a 3rd party tool called Upromote that works good and is only like $99
> last time I checked.
>
> --
> Scott Harding
> MCSE, MCSA, Net +, A+
> MVP - Windows Server Networking
>
> "John" <bechtj.DeleteThis@co.delaware.pa.us> wrote in message
> news:enF1GtkfHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >I just upgraded my PDC to 2000 AD. Can I demote my BDC's that are NT to
> >Member Servers? If so, how?
> >
>

Joshua Bolton · External Since: Apr 11, 2006 Posts: 62

forgot to add you can now upgrade them to W2K server and not be a DC which
will make them member servers.

"Joshua Bolton" wrote:

> You can't even do it now with Upromote. When you upgraded the PDC you also
> changed the BDCs since you changed the Domain. For example before you went
> to AD you could take a BDC offline and promote it to PDC. Now you can't do
> that. The BDCs are only listening to the PDC emulator on the AD DC
>
> "Scott Harding" wrote:
>
> > You cannot do this Natively without reinstalling the operating system. There
> > is a 3rd party tool called Upromote that works good and is only like $99
> > last time I checked.
> >
> > --
> > Scott Harding
> > MCSE, MCSA, Net +, A+
> > MVP - Windows Server Networking
> >
> > "John" <bechtj DeleteThis @co.delaware.pa.us> wrote in message
> > news:enF1GtkfHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > >I just upgraded my PDC to 2000 AD. Can I demote my BDC's that are NT to
> > >Member Servers? If so, how?
> > >
> >