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Adding Global Catalogs

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by dneitzel

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I have three windows2000 advanced servers running active directory, but i believe only the first one is a globabl catalog server? how do i make the other three global catalog servers? I cannot find this setting anywhere?

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by tony.colgrove

To make your other servers GC's you first need them to be domain controllers. So if they are not DC run dcpromo to make them additional DC's for your AD domain.
Once they have rebooted, registered:
To make additional DC's into GC's:
Open AD Sites and Services.
Expand the Site the servers are in.
Expand the servername so you can see the NTDS Settings. Right click the NTDS settings and choose properties.
Place a Check beside: Global Catalog Server.
That's it. Give it some time to register in DNS, and replicate any additional domain partitions to the catalog. If its a single domain, youre done.

by dneitzel

Thank you for the quick answer. They were already dc's. The setting was right where you said it would be.

by vanhal

in Active Directory sites and Services, double click on the domain controller either hosting the GC or the on you want to host the GC. Right Click NDTS settings and go to properties. Enable or Disable GC for a DC. Hope this helps

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