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by adminw Feb 27, 2003 last reply Mar 10, 2003

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I have 2 DC's in the parent domain (root forest) and the 1st installed obviously holds all the FSMO roles since it was the 1st dc installed in the 1 domain. So with that in mind and I added the second domain controller, is it best for this server to be the infrastructure master or another global catalog server. I need this server for fault tolerance in case the 1st goes down but have read conflicting white papers on this. We don't have the option(budget) to install a third dc as the catalog server.....

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by jeremy the it guy Feb 27, 2003

There can only be one Global Catalog in a domain so that answers that question for you. If you need anything else, email me at jwhitlock@starprecision.com

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by jose_12650 Mar 1, 2003

According to Microsoft you can also designate this DC as RID Master and Infrastructure Master. Or as a PDC emulator if you have downlevel clients, all for reason of fault-tolerance.

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by darthkim Mar 5, 2003

One minor point,
A domain CAN have multiple global catalog servers.

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