Hi Chris,
Do you want to change the hardware only or you want to migrate the domain itself.
Like for eg. your current domain is ""abc.com" and you just want your servers on new hardware or with new hardware you want new domain also say"
chris.com".
As far as i can understand from your mail you just need to install you DC on new servers and if that is so then you can do this in any sequence.
You can run DCPROMO on the new server and when the wizard is running you can let it install DNS on the new server ( Which is actually very good feature of Windows 2003 ).Preferably create AD Integrated Zone.
Later on you can move DHCP and WINS etc.
Just keep in mind that when you plan to remove your old servers from the domain "Demote" them properly. This i am telling you from my own personal experience when i was a newbie to Active Dir. i did this mistake of not properly demoting the servers which could have caused havoc in my network but by the grace of god i came to know about this issue in time and manually seized the roles to one of the new servers create.
Hope this would be of some help to you.
Regards,
Jaspreet Singh Jolly
On 7/10/06, Chris Pohlschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello All:
I am a newbie to Active Directory and have some questions about migration our current active directory environment (AD2000) to AD2003. We have WINS, DNS, DHCP, running on two domain controllers. Reasoning for migrating is that we have some old hardware for our domain controllers and we want to move AD over to newer more stable servers. My question is what process should we move forth with first, getting DNS off of these older domain controllers and put that service on the newer soon to be domain controllers first? Then run the forest prep utility to prepare for AD migration? Thanks for any help.
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Regards,
Jaspreet Singh Jolly
