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Beuy
Asked: 2010-05-24 22:42:56 +0800 CST

Changing IP on Domain Controller?

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I'm considering changing the IP on a 2008 Domain Controller, anything that I should be aware of to look out for?

Will be doing this on a Saturday night to, leases renew every 24 hours so by Monday morning all the machines will have valid DHCP leases with correct DNS servers. Have a list of all machines on static IP so I know to update them while I'm at it.

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4 Answers

  1. Active Directory finds it resources via DNS resource records. So changing the IP shouldn't cause problems. After changing the IP address; go into CMD mode and typeipconfig /registerdns Just remember to change its subnet in 'Sites and Services' to reflect the new IP address.

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  2. Best Answer

    You can safely change the IP address on a domain controller, just be sure to reboot it to ensure proper updating of DNS records and that all services running on the machine correctly acknowledge the change.

    If the server is also running the DNS service you should be careful to update client settings, but looking at your question it looks like you've already taken this into account :-)

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  3. I have only done this with 2003, but:

    • If this is a new subnet, don't forget sites and services like Jake Mentioned.
    • Also, I ran into a catch-22 with the DNS IP. If it is configured to listen on a specific IP, make sure you change that in the DNS settings before changing the IP of the machine. If you don't, when you reboot DNS will fail, and you won't be able to change the settings on DNS either. There might be away around this, but this is what happened to me with the standard DNS console in 2003. I just gave the machine a secondary IP of the old IP so I could get into the DNS settings to add the new one, then removed the secondary IP when I was done.
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  4. Providing the DC isn't hosting any of the FSMO roles and isn't your sole DC, you might be better off demoting, changing the IP address and re-promoting it to ensure you don't end up with the old IP address anywhere.

    Should on take 10-20 mins to do:

    • DCPromo - demote

    • Change IP address

    • DCPromo - promote

    This way you can be sure the old IP address isn't anywhere in AD or DNS.

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