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When your second DC it joining being promoted it will need to know where to look for AD resourses. so deffinately during the protion process have the Primary DNS set to the existing DC.<br />
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When your second DC it joining being promoted it will need to know where to look for AD resourses. so deffinately during the protion process have the Primary DNS set to the existing DC.

TC

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Ok we have &nbsp;one 2003 DC and in the process of promting a second DC for redundancy. &nbsp;The only question i have is related to DNS. &nbsp;When configuring the static IP address on the soon to be DC2 doesnt the primary DNS server ip have to be the current DNS server ip and then the second DNS server ip be the ip of the soon to be DC? &nbsp;
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Ok we have  one 2003 DC and in the process of promting a second DC for redundancy.  The only question i have is related to DNS.  When configuring the static IP address on the soon to be DC2 doesnt the primary DNS server ip have to be the current DNS server ip and then the second DNS server ip be the ip of the soon to be DC?  

Adding an additional 2003 DC

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).