Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-07 Thread ASB
Why do you have to keep the names the same? -ASB FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ On 11/4/05, Frank Abagnale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am planning on replacing my existing Domain Controller hardware with new > HP Servers. All DC's in my envi

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-07 Thread Frank Abagnale
Hi Neil, Brian, Fred,   Thanks for your responses, having searched on the message groups, I have come across a few people who have suggested than renaming a Windows 2003 using the Netdom function is not a good idea without backing it up with a viable reason.   Neil - what was the reason you decided

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-04 Thread neil.ruston
Sorry for the extra post, but in addition to my first post you will need to ensure that routers are re-configured to forward BOOTP requests to the new IP, if the DHCP service is installed on a machine which receives an IP address change.   neil   ___Neil RustonGlobal T

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-04 Thread neil.ruston
One potential gotcha is that if your DCs register SRV records in their own local copy of the zone and not on some other remote DC/DNS server, then when a DC is demoted the SRV records will only be removed locally and will still appear on the remote copies of the zone.   Solution: ensure that

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-04 Thread van Donk, Fred
Too bad you have to keep the same name and IP else it would have been s easy. I do not forsee any problems doing this, if you demote the DC's (without any issues) then there should not be a need for a metadata cleanup.   Fred   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading Hardware for Windows 2003 DC

2005-11-04 Thread Brian Desmond
Frank,   Just dcpromo the old one down, and dcpromo the new one up. You only need to do a metadata cleanup if the DC is uncleanly removed (aka not dcpromo’ed down).   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL