Domain Controllers Continue to Use Global Catalog Server After It Has Been Demoted

After you demote a server from a global catalog server to a domain controller, other domain controllers that used that server for universal group enumeration may continue to use the server even though it no longer is participating in global catalog replication. This can cause some queries to return outdated or incomplete information.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, reboot the domain controller after you demote it from a global catalog server. This forces other domain controllers to discover another global catalog server.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.