Trying to transfer to a new domain controller

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Matt Cooling

Hello,

I am trying to migrate to a new Windows 2000 domain controller. I have
installed Windows 2000, added it to the domain, promoted the server to a
domain controller, and then made the new server the operations master for
'RID', 'PDC', and 'infrastructure'. However, if I disable the netlogon
service on the old server, I cannot log into the domain via the new server.

Having looked in DNS, I think I may have found the problem - in the
subdomain, _msdcs, _sites, and all the others that were created as part of
the AD installation, there are lots of references to the original server. I
suspect these need to be changed to the new server, but although I could
change them manually, I suspect there is a better, automated way of doing
this.

Please can someone suggest some steps that I have missed, or what I need to
do to force clients to start authenticating against the new server - I've
tried looking on the Internet & newsgroups, but don't have much experience
with AD so don't quite know what I'm looking for.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Matt
 
Matt maybe a silly question, but do you want to decommission the old server?
If you want to rebuild the server then just DCPROMO the server out of the
existing domain. If you want to re-deploy the server to another site than
define another site in Active Directory site and services and move the
server object into the new site and re-deploy the server to that site.



Please explain as to what you need to achieve.
 
Make sure the "new" DC is DNS. Make sure your clients can find it via DNS.
aka NSLOOKUP test. On the "old" server, don't stop the netlogon service,
but pause it "net pause netlogon" or just dcpromo down the old DC. You may
need to do a metadata cleanup with NTDSUTIL just to make sure AD does get
rid of all references to it. Check DNS scavenging is on so as to get rid of
the old DC's records.

HTH,
BrianK
 
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions - we managed to do it
eventually - I think it was just a timing issue.

Cheers,

Matt
 
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