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by bpadt

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I just upgraded my PDC to Windows 2000 and the process went smoothly. However, I took the Windows 2000 Domain Controller offline until I can make the necessary DNS entries and make the DHCP fully functional. When I went to promote a BDC back to PDC it displayed a message that I may receive errors when I bring the DC back online. Anything I need to do to avoid trouble when I am ready to bring my Windows 2000 DC back online? Thanks.

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by philip reay

Hi

I'm not entirely sure on this one, but I think this will work. It is possible to promote your BDC back to a PDC as long as when you are ready to bring your DC back online, you must first demote the PDC to a BDC and then bring the DC back online.

I haven't tried this myself. For more information you look at the following links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnt40/html/msdn_nt4to5.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q283/5/95.ASP

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/domaincntrl.asp

I hope this helps you out a bit

cheers
Philip

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