Down clients could be handled by DHCP as far as the DNS but I would have all of them go through a restart after the changes are made to DHCP just to force things to work. Servers I would put on the new DNS servers before anything else just to get them done but that assumes you are statically assigning IP addresses for them. Once all of them are reporting to the new DNS servers dump the old DNS servers.
Jon On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: > Your DNS servers will remain DNS servers after you DCPROMO them to remove > AD. You will need to uninstall the DNS service from the servers to remove > it, if you fee it’s necessary. You have a few options available to you > depending on how you have restructured your new environment. You can choose > to keep these as AD-integrated DNS servers for the new domain. You can chose > to remove the DNS service, but keep in mind that you will need to > reconfigure clients to point to the new DNS servers first if you do this. > > > > > > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Sr. Systems Engineer > Infrastructure Service Delivery > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 > ------------------------------ > > *From:* richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:24 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* DCPROMO demotion and DNS > > > > > Greetings! > > Our network and AD structure have been in the process of being "moved", > "renamed", "merged", "whatevered" for the past few weeks. All the > workstations and laptops are now a part of the new domain. Next come all > servers... > > Question - We have AD-integrated DNS through our DCs. What becomes of the > DNS functions if the DC is demoted to a member server? Does it become a > "secondary" DNS server getting its information from a remaining DC? Become > a static DNS server (manual entries, etc but functioning on the information > it had at the time of demo)? Cease any and all DNS services (but can be > made a secondary DNS server later if desired)? One chooses what becomes of > DNS at the time of demo? > > Any good links to a site that does not require registering for a > blog/forum? > > Thanks! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > *ASPCA®* > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is > privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. > If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are > notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or > communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. * > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
