At 08:40 AM 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>John David M. Miller wrote:
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>> Is there a way to demote a Backup Domain Controller
>> to a Standalone Server.
>>
>> I am upgrading to IIS4 and the Index Server will not work
>> on a PDC or a BDC.
>>
>> Will a reinstall of NT allow this without blowing out all
>> the currently running software?
>>
>> I am hoping there is way to do this that will not require
>> a rebuild of all the applications on the drive.
>>
>> John David M. Miller
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>> SAMnet Internet Solutions / http://www.samnet.net
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> Nope, definitely not. You can demote a PDC to a BDC and a BDC to a PDC,
>but you can't demote either to a standalone without reinstalling. Now
>most people here said that you can't keep your runnin programs. I think
>you can. If you reinstall into the same directory (usually /WINNT), I
>don't think you will have any problems keeping existing programs. I
>think if there already exists an NTFS partition it won't reformat it...I
>could be off here.
> Good Luck,
> Jason Hess
> CIOE Corporation
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