Migration questions

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Hi All,
My company is current doing server migration work. There are currently 3
Domain Controllers in Singapore. We are planning to migrate all these 3 to
Malaysia.

The plan is to setup 3 DC in Malaysia and once done, shutdown all 3 in
Singapore so that all traffic will be routed to Malaysia. Please note that we
are all on the same domain(Singapore and Malaysia). I understand that this
approach should work fine but we would like to take a safer approach but i am
not sure if this can be done.

What we would like to do this:
We would ideally setup 3 DC in Malaysia and add them to the list of DC in
the domain which means all 6 DC serving login requests at all times. Then
proceed to shutdown the Singapore DCs one at a time.

Is this possible to add in 3 new DCs to the domain list so that the machine
can recognise them?
Where can we add the name of the new DCs in the domain?
Is this approach good or is there another better way?

Thanks for your help in advance.
Melvin
 
It would be a much better idea to leave the 3 dc's in place and add 3 dc's in
malaysia. You don't want authenication traffic going across your wan line
between the sites. Better to just have server to server communication. I
would think a malaysia domain and a singapore domain with both under the same
forest would be the way to go. But I don't know your business. Look for
others to chime in on this subject.

Now given your plan of discontinuing the servers you would want to
run adprep if a 2000 AD and adding a 2003 server(s)
new servers have Global Catalog
new server has dns
new servers have FSMO roles
then you can disconnect the 3 existing servers by dcpromo down and then
remove from DNS
 
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