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The help-desk person changes my password, and it seems that all willīut consider: What DC did the help-desk person change my password on? Well, she probablyĭid it on a DC that was physically close to her, a DC in Ottawa. you probably know that replicating ADĬhanges can take time-sometimes a significant amount of time. The PDC emulator still serves in two extremely important functions. PDC emulator becomes irrelevant once you’re in Native mode and have no pre-2000 boxes around? Not at all. Why does the DC need to see the PDC emulator so badly? Otherwise, this computer sets up the secure session to any domain controller in the specified domain. If this computer is a domain controller for the specified domain, it sets up the secure session to the primary domain controller emulator in the specified domain. If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator. Make sure that this computer is connected to the network. This may lead to authentication problems. There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain BLG due to the following: I notice that when the PDC was unavailable on our network briefly, one of the other DCs gave this error
If the DC which has the PDC emulator role is powered off, what will happen to the domain? Will people log in ok? Will policies apply ok? The domain has all windows 2003 server DCs.