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BDC/PDC Problems When Upgrading To Windows 2000?

Posted by Cliff on from the will-they-ever-get-updates-right dept.

Kisc asks: "After being hired to administer Sun/Solaris machines, I find that my next big job is to get our network moved over to Windows 2000 Active Directory Services and Exchange 2000. We're on an NT 4 domain. I did it once... but it didn't work, due to undocumented problems with BDCs. We got a Microsoft tech support guy to finally admit that BDCs cause known problems when trying to upgrade your PDC to Windows 2000/ADS. I have read through three different books, and never found mention of that (including the O'Reilly book on ADS). Please, does anyone know of a book, set of books, a Web site, or anything, where I can get the information on Exchange 2000/ADS/Windows 2000 that Microsoft doesn't want me to have?"

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  1. It may be funny, but... by jfunk · · Score: 3

    Dan has a good point.

    Apparently, Samba TNG is able to do a full PDC, including ADS. I'm not sure how stable it is right now (I work for a Linux company and don't need to deal with that stuff too much).

    I suggest trying it out and getting on the mailing list.

    You see, the greatest strength of open source, the reson I use it, is that you can fix a bug if you find one. The free part doesn't matter at all here. In fact, you always have the option of contracting someone to do such development for you. It's not free anymore, but you have control, not a company who withholds information...

    Quite frankly, I'm glad I don't have to depend on one company who may or may not care about whether their software works for me. Not being able to see Sorenson QuickTime is an extremely small price to pay. :-)*

  2. Similar Problems by Hermetic · · Score: 3
    I am just a code monkey where I work, but we had a very similar problem when we migrated to Win2k over the last month or so. Here's what we ended up learning:

    The BDC's call for a new "poll" (i can only tell you what was told to me...) every time one of the win2k BDC's goes down. The winner is the win2k system with the most... something, i don't remember, maybe hardware? lastest verions?

    Catch: They also "poll" when they come back up. So the job of BCD can be constanly shifting.

    We were have a very hard time when I was installing my Win2k workstation, then wrote a few bad loops that were taking down my win2k server...


    Note that this is hearsay from a programmer, not a networker.

    --
    Computers can only simulate determinism. ~Hermetic.