> I tryed to send you the screenshot of my settings, but i guess it's > bigger them what allowed. Here is what my settings read: Yes, I got the attachment. > MAIL is my email server on secondary DC. Rome was the first DC for > domain. I installed secondary DC for the same site and later loaded > Exchange on it. My point was that MAIL does not have ROME as a DC in Domain access, only as a GC. > The reason i raised some concerns about MAIL having incorrect settings, > because when i created accounts in Rome, they didn't replicate to MAIL > and backwards. I also installed second DNS on MAIL and it was also > acting goofy. I would see the copy of first DNS, but this would act like > it needs to be setup.... Red Flag on play! I bet this a DNS issue. AD absolutely requires properly configure domain wide DNS zones. Do you see the srv records in the DNS AD Domain zone? Do you have a root zone? Are the zones AD Integrated mode? > This made me look into my domain configurations. I checked AD Sites and > Services and knowticed that someone made MAIL a GC also. So i had 2 GC > and AD was getting confised. I unchecked the GC checkbox for MAIL and > now i only have ROME as a CG. OK > Reason for demoting this MAIL server is to clear all the AD settings i > have on that server and clear ROME AD. I do want to promote it back to > DC later on again, but at least i would know that everything is correct. > No one else would mess with the servers again! :) Lets get DNS checked first. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com