RE: [ActiveDir]

[Jerry Johnson]

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Yes clients use DHCP. Am going to look at the scope options as you suggest and hopefully this will be one less hurdle in my conversion.   Thank’s much Jerry   Scicom Data Services Minnetonka,Mn   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]   Do your clients use DHCP to get their addresses or are they static?   If they're DHCP - then a script shouldn't be needed just amend the scope options and let the changes filter through.... if they're static - then it might be time to start looking at DHCP to make your life easier in the long run :->   Jack From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 15, October 2003 15:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Am still an amateur in the scripting area so that is not yet an option, am trying to get away from visiting every desktop to change their settings which is why this Question came up. I guess your suggestion would be an option, might have to rethink my strategy. Thank you Jerry   Scicom Data Services Minnetonka,Mn   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:07 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]   Can't think of any reason why you couldn't pull this off.  I can think of a thousand different things that could go wrong.   As a suggestion, have you considered modifying the users DNS server usage?  Say with a script?  DHCP settings?     Not sure that it really must be done that way either.  I mean, if you take the server down, rebuild it, let it replicate, you'd have a new DNS and DC conceivably during the end users down time.  Much lower risk as well.  Is that an option?  Fall back options would need to be worked out in case things didn't go well.     Al  -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Hi Folks, I have 2 w2k servers in my network that are responsible for all the FSMO roles,DNS,DHCP,etc. Have just promoted a server3k member server to DC status and would Like to temporarily give the 3k server all of the above responsibility while I decommission the 2k servers one at a time and rebuild them as 3k servers. The problem is that all 2k and xp clients point to the 2k servers for DNS, which leads to my question. Can I change the IP address of the 3k server to that of one of the 2k servers once it is out of the loop and not experience any problems?  I read an article about how to do it but would like to know if anyone has done this and if so what should I look out for as far as gotchas,etc.   Thank you in advance Jerry   Scicom Data Services Minnetonka,Mn