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Promoting a Windows 2003 as the second Domain Controler - What about DNS

Hi, I have one Windows 2000 server that is domain controller with Active Directory and DNS. I would like to add another domain controler (Windows 2003) to the network to keep active directory in two places. When I promote the Windows 2003 server to domain controller, it will ask me to setup new DNS. should I acepted the defaults and let it add a second DNS or should I point to the first one?

Thank You for any help,
Vince

TannerMan

Your question came up once before. here is the link to find your steps for upgrading to windows 2003 AD from your current 2000 AD.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21161381/Adding-new-2003-Server-to-our-network.html

VKugel

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Thank you but...
I do not want to move anything I simply want to have a backup server for active directory. What about DNS?

virtuoso1

can you just run dcpromo and set it as a backup domain controller? The replication should allow them to sync up with the same dns database.

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