There are really two parts to your issue here. How to point to different DNS servers (very easy) and how do I ensure that the new DNS server have all the correct information (if you lose your SRV records AD is seriously broken). Pointing to new DNS servers is simple. Just change your DNS settings in your IP configuration. The transfer of DNS information is more difficult. There are several ways to do this. One would be to do a zone transfer from the old DNS server to your new servers. If you have lots of cname records, txt records or other non-dynamic records, this would be your best bet, and this is probably the safest way to handle things. If you don't have these, as long as your new DNS servers allow dynamic registration, pointing one of your DCs to the new DNS server issuing an "ipconfig /registerdns" command, then stopping and restarting the netlogon service should register the DC and the SRV records. As long as the DNS server allows dynamic registration stopping and restarting netlogon is supposed to reregister the SRV records for the DC. Warning: I have seen this not work, so if you try this method, do one and check to see that the SRV records are written before you try the other.
Ted Nichols Ipswitch QA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Griffith - IMail Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Help With Active Directory Stuff Hello All, Sorry for the off-topic, but I know there are allot of Windows Admins on here. Basically, we have a domain setup for our servers with 2 domain controllers. When they were originally setup, they were setup to use a public DNS server. We are working to setup 2 internal DNS servers instead and want to tell Active Directory to use and store its information there instead of the other DNS servers. I have searched the Knowledge Base and must not be searching for the right thing as I can not find anything telling us how to tell Active Directory to move and use the information on these new DNS servers instead. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Secondly, we are going to change the domain controllers around the same time as we want to make a couple different servers the domain controllers. Thanks, Grant Griffith Web Application Developer Enhanced Telecommunications Corp. (812)932-1000 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
