Making a second DC a global catalog holder

17 Feb 2006 1:30 PM

Brian Henry

We have 4 DC's in our domain right now, but only one of them is the schema
master and global catalog holder. How would I go about creating a second
global catalog holder for fault tollerance? Also is it possible to create a
second schema master? or is the name what it means a master server and can
not be duplicated? thanks!

17 Feb 2006 3:13 PM

Doug Sherman [MVP]

Creating a global Catalog server is easy: Open AD Sites and Services,
expand the desired server, right click NTDS Settings and select Properties.
Check the box for Global Catalog.

There can only be one Schema Master per forest.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

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"Brian Henry" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> We have 4 DC's in our domain right now, but only one of them is the schema
> master and global catalog holder. How would I go about creating a second
> global catalog holder for fault tollerance? Also is it possible to create
a
> second schema master? or is the name what it means a master server and can
> not be duplicated? thanks!
>
>

17 Feb 2006 4:18 PM

Brian Henry

thanks! that was way easier then i expected... expected something like
moving FSMO roles around... moving the schema takes a lot more work then
that

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"Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@notampabayspamforme.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Creating a global Catalog server is easy: Open AD Sites and Services,
> expand the desired server, right click NTDS Settings and select
> Properties.
> Check the box for Global Catalog.
>
> There can only be one Schema Master per forest.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Brian Henry" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:ObM68Y8MGHA.1088@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> We have 4 DC's in our domain right now, but only one of them is the
>> schema
>> master and global catalog holder. How would I go about creating a second
>> global catalog holder for fault tollerance? Also is it possible to create
> a
>> second schema master? or is the name what it means a master server and
>> can
>> not be duplicated? thanks!
>>
>>
>
>

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