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PDC or BDC to a stand-alone
Name: John McHutcheon Date: June 6, 2000 at 13:19:40 Pacific
Comment:
Can I demote a PDC or BDC to a stand-alone? is this possible??
Name: Anthony Date: June 6, 2000 at 13:49:21 Pacific
Reply:
I am pretty sure this is not possible . You have to reinstall NT
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Response Number 2
Name: John McHutcheon Date: June 6, 2000 at 14:22:03 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks - what would be the best approach to uninstall NT?
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Response Number 3
Name: Andrew Date: June 7, 2000 at 06:29:08 Pacific
Reply:
Yep, no way around it, you have to reinstall NT to become a member server. Best approach.....BACK UP first. You may want to try installing NT member server into the orriginal WINNT directory and see what happens. But if this were an MCSE test question the answer would be reformat the partition containing the system files, install NT member server, and restore files and settings from backup. Hope this helps!
If you installed on FAT just boot to a disk blow away WINNT and the start up files Pagefile.sys Ntldr Boot.ini ntdetect.ini
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Response Number 5
Name: Ernest Date: June 8, 2000 at 09:29:43 Pacific
Reply:
John,
I believe that you can promote a BDC to a PDC. When you promote a BDC to PDC status the PDC will automatically become a BDC. Shutting down the PDC doesn't make a BDC into a PDC-the BDC will continue to authenticate log on requests and will maintain the security database, but when the PDC comes back on line the BDC will resume Backup status.
That doesn't really answer your question, does it? That's all I understand, though.
Ernest
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Response Number 6
Name: Per Date: August 28, 2001 at 10:12:23 Pacific
Reply:
Itīs possible to demote a BDC to memberserver! You just need some demotion tool software (but it can be risky, registry-changes). It works!
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