To enable another Global Catalog Server:
- Open the ‘Active Directory Site and Services’ MMC (Located within the ‘Administrative Tools’ section of the Control Panel
- Expand the ‘Sites’ folder on the left
- Expand the site that you want to alter, it may be ‘Default-First-Site-Name’ if you haven’t changed it
- Expand the ‘Servers’ folder
- Expand the Server you wish to configure
- Right click on the ‘NTDS Settings’ under the server you wish to configure and select ‘Properties’
- In the ‘General’ tab of that properties dialog box, tick the ‘Global Catalog’ option
- Click ‘Apply’
- Click ‘OK’
That’s it, after replication, you will have an additional Global Catalog Server. To stop a server being a Global Catalog Server, just un-tick the box explained in item 7 above instead of ticking it.