Detailed DCPROMO commands in Windows server

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; The dcpromo command is a "switch" command. If the Windows Desktop Server computer is a member server, running the DCPROMO command installs the Active Directory, upgrades it to a domain controller, and if the Windows Server computer is already a domain controller, running the DCPROMO command uninstalls the Active Directory. Demote it to a member server.

Windows Advanced Server, which is the concern of the vast majority of enterprise users, adds a lot of new features to Windows NT Server 4.0, and here we talk about the Dcpromo commands.

Friends familiar with Windows NT 4.0 know that before installing a server, you must plan the role of the server as a PDC (primary domain controller), BDC (backup domain controller), or member or stand-alone Server (member or stand-alone server). Moreover, it is necessary to plan the logical structure of the network in advance, which is composed of domain or composition Workgroup (Working Group). If it is composed of workgroup, then the server can only be installed as a member server, and if it is composed of domain, then the first server installed in domain must be the PDC, and later servers may be installed as a BDC. You can also install as member Server, but note that the PDC must already exist in the domain before the BDC is installed, and that there can be only one PDC in a domain.

Although a BDC elevation (Promote) can be a PDC when there is a problem with the PDC in domain, the DC (domain controller, including the PDC and BDC) and member server cannot be converted to each other, which means that after a server is installed, If you want to change its functionality, redefine its role, become a member server from a DC, or become a DC from member server, the only way to do this is to reinstall Windows NT. Therefore, the partition and management mode of the computer role in NT 4.0 put forward higher requirements for the planning of the domain, and also brought great trouble to the maintenance of the domain.

We are pleased to see that Windows 2000 has solved this problem well. In Windows Advanced Server, the computer no longer distinguishes between a PDC or a BDC, and all servers have only the difference between DC and member server, and the roles can be easily converted to each other. The tool that completes this function is the Dcpromo.exe command, which is a built-in command in Windows Advanced Server.

When an administrator wants to change the role of a server by simply running the dcpromo command at the command line state, Windows 2000 automatically discriminant the role of the current computer, and then pops up a Wizard (Wizard) window that guides the user step-by-step through DC and member Conversion between servers. Users can also verify that the conversion was successful by viewing the Dcpromo.log log.

To sum up, we can see that while Dcpromo is just a small command, it greatly improves the manageability and ease of use of Windows 2000. In fact, this is only a minor improvement in Windows 2000 compared to the many advantages of previous versions of the operating system, but we do feel that Windows 2000 is doing the best for the user-friendly development principles.