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Reuben
Asked: 2010-08-12 20:07:56 +0800 CST

Window Server 2008 R2: Can you change the IP address of the domain controller?

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Recently configured the IP address of the server 192.168.0.2, then I went ahead and configured its role as a domain controller (This process also configured the DNS). Now I would like to reconfigure the IP as 192.168.1.2

Will this mess domain controller configuration and also the users created on the network (stored on the AD db)? or will this wreak the DNS in anyway?

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  1. Best Answer

    Microsoft has a procedure posted here:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794931%28WS.10%29.aspx

    Down in the section titled, "To change the static IP address of a domain controller"

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  2. I'm pretty sure you'll be okay if you change the IP address. It's the hostname that can sometimes get you into trouble-- however, if it's the primary DNS server for your network client machines, you will at least have to configure your clients with the new DNS server address. Hopefully you either use DHCP which will distribute this change for you (once you modify the DNS setting in your DHCP config and maybe reboot the clients), or you don't have a lot of clients to manually configure.

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