I am glad you asked the smart guys. Me, being the not too bright sometimes, would have answered like this: demote 1 DC, rebuild it, stand up a new domain and then migrate from old domain to new one. Then, demote the old DCs when no longer needed, join them to new domain.
As I said I some times take the hard approach. Dan > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ActiveDir] You guys amaze me! > From: "Rocky Habeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, October 23, 2003 7:05 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm serious. > > Here is a question for you. As always, if you could offer any info, I > would > be very grateful. We're a small shop with only 2 Admins managing 200 > users > in 4 states and we don't have the firepower you guys do. > > Let's say you don't like your AD domain name and you want to change it. > You > have 4 DCs, 3 each W2K SP3 and 1 each NT4 SP6a, so you're still in > mixed > mode. You could move the NT DC to 2K, then move everyone to W2K3, > then > raise the Forest functionality level and then play Russian Roulette > with > Rendom. That's one option. Or could it be as simple as DCPromoing all > 3 > W2K3 servers down to Standalone servers, allowing the NT4 DC which > still > controls the pre-W2K subdomain name to take full control of the domain > again, and then DCPromoing one of the 3 W2K DCs back up to W2K as the > FSMO > and renaming the domain to what you want? I would love to believe I > could > do it and get away with it. > > Thank you people. > > PS: I don't envy you Joe. I hope you're being paid well! > > RH > > ------------------------------------------------- > Rocky Habeeb > Microsoft Systems Administrator > ------------------------------------------------- > James W. Sewall Company > Old Town, Maine > ------------------------------------------------- > 207.827.4456 > habr @ jws.com > www.jws.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
