Master Browser... can I stop this?

Our ISA Server 2004 server (Windows 2003) keeps trying to become master
browser, and we don't particularly want this to happen. I thought only DCs
should be master browsers?

Is there a way I can stop it from doing this?

Hi,

Here is an article that might be able to help you out.

Troubleshooting browser Event ID 8021 and 8032 on master browsers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135404/en-us

If you can't solve your problem by suggested solutions in this article, can
you post back with specific Event IDs that you are getting on your server.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"hinarei" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C5616521-875C-402D-8A7E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Our ISA Server 2004 server (Windows 2003) keeps trying to become master
> browser, and we don't particularly want this to happen. I thought only
> DCs
> should be master browsers?
>
> Is there a way I can stop it from doing this?

If your ISA server is a member of the domain but not a DC or
more specifically the PDC emulator you can simply turn off the
computer browser service by disabling it.

"hinarei" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:
> Our ISA Server 2004 server (Windows 2003) keeps trying to become master
> browser, and we don't particularly want this to happen. I thought only
> DCs
> should be master browsers?
>
> Is there a way I can stop it from doing this?

thank you both, Michael and Miha.

The article was very useful in deciding what to do, and it seems that it
wasn't a necessary service for this computer. I've stopped it and everything
seems to be working, no errors now, which is a good thing.

"Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is an article that might be able to help you out.
>
> Troubleshooting browser Event ID 8021 and 8032 on master browsers
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135404/en-us
>
> If you can't solve your problem by suggested solutions in this article, can
> you post back with specific Event IDs that you are getting on your server.
>
> --
> Mike
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
>
> "hinarei" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C5616521-875C-402D-8A7E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Our ISA Server 2004 server (Windows 2003) keeps trying to become master
> > browser, and we don't particularly want this to happen. I thought only
> > DCs
> > should be master browsers?
> >
> > Is there a way I can stop it from doing this?
>
>
>