You should demote the old domain controllers in order to clean up DNS and NTDS metadata; not just shut them down.
I also presume that in step 1 you will point DNS to the "old" DCs. Before step 8, you'll need to update DNS "everywhere" to point to the new DCs. Otherwise, seems like a good plan. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sohail Qadir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: moving AD's Good Morning Everyone, I Currently have two domain controllers server1 and server2 running windows server 2003. I am planning to replace both of these servers with two new servers server3 and server4 Installed on new hardware with server 2003 R2 sp2. These are the steps I have planned, Please Let me know if I am missing some thing. 1 Install windows 2003 R2 sp2 and patch it up 2 Join it to the Domain 3 Run DCpromo to make it into a Domain controller 4 Install DNS and make it AD-Integrated 5 Wait for the replication so all the DNS records and SRV'S are replicated to this DNS server 6 Transfer the FSMO roles 7 Next move the DHCP 8 Shut down the old Domain Controller. Please Let me know if I am missing anything or anything I should look out for. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Sohail Qadir ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
