Oddly enough, this exact topic came up in a dinner conversation at Tech Ed this year.[1] Luther...oh heck somebody remind me of his last name...had apparently quizzed people with this one at a previous conference (DEC?), only to utimately reveal that the answer was "You know how people always ask you what the IM FSMO does? Well, now you can tell them that it's responsible for running /domainprep."
[1] Please hold the jokes about having dinner conversations about Active Directory internals until the end, please. :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray > > Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:36 PM > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep > > > > Hi all > > > > Does anyone know why the documentation suggests that adprep > > /domainprep be run on the DC holding the IM FSMO role? I heard a > > rumour to the effect that it was only because that DC is > likely to be > > less busy than the other DCs, but I'd like to know for sure. > > > > Tony > > > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
