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Kev
Asked: 2010-02-23 11:34:13 +0800 CST

Switching Windows 2003 Active Directory servers

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Newb question:

I have two servers, call them OLD and NEW, on a domain that are apparently replicating Active Directory just fine.

The last time I had this setup it was to migrate from 2000 to 2003. I had to do the whole "create BDC, promote, disconnect old PDC (now a BDC)" thing.

This time I'm just going from 2003 to 2003 on different hardware. Now that they're replicating, do I just down the old server?

(Thanks for the help, it's hard to google things when you don't know the current and/or proper terminology to describe what you're trying to do.)

windows-server-2003 active-directory

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  1. Best Answer

    If you run dcpromo on the old DC and demote it, the dcpromo process will transfer the FSMO roles to the new DC. Make sure to update your clients to use only the new DC for DNS if the new DC will be the only remaining DC\DNS server.

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