Second Domain Controller

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First DC is running DNS and also DHCP. After I promoted the 2nd DC, do I
have to make the 2nd DC to have DNS and DHCP roles as well before the DNS
and DHCP information will be replicated to the 2nd DC? Currently 2nd DC has
been configured to be an additional DC in the domain. On the 'Manage your
server' window, the only role I see for the 2nd DC is Active Directory
(domain controller.

Thanks.


RedBox
 
First DC is running DNS and also DHCP. After I promoted the 2nd DC, do I
have to make the 2nd DC to have DNS and DHCP roles as well before the DNS
and DHCP information will be replicated to the 2nd DC? Currently 2nd DC has
been configured to be an additional DC in the domain. On the 'Manage your
server' window, the only role I see for the 2nd DC is Active Directory
(domain controller.
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DNS can be integrated into AD, DHCP can't. But apart from that detail,
you are correct, you will need to add DNS to the new DC to replicate
the DNS information.

DHCP is a different matter. You would normally have only one DHCP
server on a reasonably sized network - because a client can only get
an IP from one server, so the second would not *backup* the first
*directly*.

If you do have two, you can use the second to allocate addresses but
you should not have the same range on both DHCP servers.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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