The only real requirement is to ensure the
dcpromo action to remove the DC functions is fully replicated to each DC in the
forest before you think about adding it back. In large environments (hundreds or
thousands of DCs) I recommend don’t re-promote a name within the
tombstone lifetime J But that’s simply a safety net for those forests have
a general lack of convergence. In most cases because of the volume of firewall
rules in the enterprise they reuse the IPs and don’t want to wait a day
to make sure it’s gone everywhere so they build on new h/w with new name
and everyone is happy. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Johnston Hello list, (Skip the first Paragraph if your in a rush :p It is a
self introduction.) This is my first post so I would like to introduce myself
and say hello to everyone and thanks for the bucket loads of good info floating
around. I am relatively new to the industry and this is my first
permanent job since University, I have just 8 months in my current role after 6
months of contracting for a large Aerospace company. I work for a
consultancy that mainly provides software solutions using .net. I am
working as a Systems Admin and am totally responsible for our internal systems
(25 or so servers including development boxes) and also for several external
clients server environments. I have been trying to pick up as much as
possible by reading books, blogs, whitepapers and gathering advice from the
many helpful individuals in this community. With that in mind forgive me
for any newbie mistakes J Thanks again
and on that note, I hope one day to be as useful as many of you already are. Ok so here is the situation: I am planning an Active
Directory 2k and Exchange 2k upgrade to 2k3. Our servers are named after
Greek / Roman Gods hence the subject. I have 2 DC’s Ceres and Hades (also the Exchange
server) and a third new server running server 2k3 (Server3 – currently
unnamed) which shall replace the DC Ceres. I plan to do an in place
upgrade of Exchange on Hades, join Server3 to the domain install Exchange 2k3
move all the mail boxes, public folders and system folders then demote Hades remove
it from the domain, rebuild it with 2003 and rejoin it again and dcpromo.
Finally I will demote, remove Ceres and bin it (its very old :p) . Ok so
maybe I have simplified this a bit but you get the general idea, enough to
answer my question. My question is.. Can I use the name Hades again when
it is rebuilt and re-made a DC? I presume if the name Ceres is given to
another box it wont matter unless that box goes on to become a DC too. I know the answer to the above is yes but it requires some
tweaking using ADSIedit. This is the part I don’t know.
What needs to be changed and what precautions can I take before making this
change to ensure I won’t mess it up? Oh and Don’t worry I am doing this on Virtual’s
at the moment and will do multiple full backups on the live systems before I
start this :p Thanks
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- RE: [ActiveDir] Can the Gods return to ou... Brian Desmond
- RE: [ActiveDir] Can the Gods return to our do... joe
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- RE: [ActiveDir] Can the Gods return to ou... Steven Johnston
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