The short story: I wnat to move DNS from a 32 bit WS 2003 to 64 bit WS 2003.
Originally DC, DHCP, WINS, DNS ( only one in domain ) were running on a 32 bit 2003 WS. After a lot of work and help from the experts I have moved everything except DNS and WINS to a new 64 bit 2003 WS.
I have installed DNS and WINS to the new server, and because it is the DC I half expected everying to magically show up. No magic. I believe all the DNS information should be there somewhere because it is the DC and was migrated to from the DC that had the companies DNS on it.
My plan is to run the two in tandem then make the changes to the equipment in the domain, then remove DNS/WINS from the old server.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
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AD integrated is the default On the current DNS server, start DNS Manager.
Right-click the DNS zone, click Properties, it should say Active Directory Integrated
To set which machine it uses for DNS set the Preferred DNS server option in the TCP/IP properties - as you suggest.
Note if your clients are using DHCP then you will need to change the DNS server option in the DCHP options to point to the new DNS server.
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by: KCTSPosted on 2009-10-21 at 08:07:14ID: 25624706
If you are using AD Integrated DNS then you first need to add the 64bit machine as an additional DC in your existing domain and make it point at the old DC for its DNS. Once that's done you can install DNS on the new machine, DNS should then replicate to the new machine and once it has then you should be bale to point the new machine to itself for DNS. Wins is similar, though the machine does not need to be a DC, the default is for WINS to automatically set up its replication topology. Once all is ok then you can remove DNS?WINS from the old machine after having made sure that all clients look to the new mackine for DNS/WINS