AD's requirement is to have DNS name resolution as you thought. As long as the new DNS meets the requirements, there's no reason you have to have it integrated. You will of course have to be careful with the changeover, but I think you know that already.
Let us know if you have any other questions. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Deleting AD DNS zones As for DHCP I would re-point and change the TTL... Yes, I would point the AD Server to the new secondary Server or DNS resolution, and Once that is done I want to delete or remove the current AD Integrated Zones because they're a Complete mess. I'm concerned about breaking the Current AD infrastructure if I remove DNS off it, I assumed all AD needed was a DNS server to point to do that's where my thinking is at, because the new secondary server have the zones and records in place now the way I want them... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Deleting AD DNS zones Like you haven't heard this before: it depends. For example: "with pointing the current AD integrated ones to the new Secondary server for resolution" Are you talking about reconfiguring the DC's to use the new server as their DNS host? What about the clients? Are you sure none of them are using the old servers as their DNS host? What about DHCP and WINS? Are they reconfigured? Otherwise, you could do this. I would certainly break that xfer setup prior to the deletion of zones though :) Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Deleting AD DNS zones I've just inherited 3 AD controllers and the DNS in just a mess, some clients point to External Bind Cache servers and there are 2 zones in MS DNS that are used for intern resolution with half the resources in one zone and half in the other, I've build another Member server just running DNS and have allowed zone transfers and I think I have it all running correctly now on the new server. Does anyone know or see a problem with pointing the current AD integrated ones to the new Secondary server for resolution then deleting the current AD integrated Zones and then promoting the new secondary server to a DC, then change the DNS on that server to AD integrated and let it populate to the rest of the domain controllers? All servers are windows 2003. All Bind Servers are 9.0. Thanks in advance Mike Mike Hogenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] <blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rendition Networks, Inc. 10735 Willows Rd NE, Suite 150 Redmond, WA 98052 425.636.2115 | Fax: 425.497.1149 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
