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My company was sold and we are migrating off their network to a new one.
I have created a new AD Forest (Win2008R2) in the same subnet and our servers and desktops have migrated successfully. This exists happily in the old subnet along with the old company's live AD domain we moved away from. With a little tweaking we have accounts and shares working pretty well. We now have to switch subnets away from them to a NAT one, 192.168.100.xxx. I'd like to test this move in advance.
I'd like to test in advance by moving a "disposable" DC that will be wiped after the test to a different physical network and use the NAT network. I'd bring over a couple "disposable" workstations and a "disposable" server. This will be using a different WAN connection and would be connected to the internet separately from the old network.
I took my "disposable" DC over to the NAT network but DNS and DHCP will not start. I assume because it doesn't see the GC, have the FSMO roles, or other needed pieces.
Is there an outline of steps I would want to perform to do this test, without taking down the two live DCs on the old subnet before I'm ready?
Thoughts?
My company was sold and we are migrating off their network to a new one.
I have created a new AD Forest (Win2008R2) in the same subnet and our servers and desktops have migrated successfully. This exists happily in the old subnet along with the old company's live AD domain we moved away from. With a little tweaking we have accounts and shares working pretty well. We now have to switch subnets away from them to a NAT one, 192.168.100.xxx. I'd like to test this move in advance.
I'd like to test in advance by moving a "disposable" DC that will be wiped after the test to a different physical network and use the NAT network. I'd bring over a couple "disposable" workstations and a "disposable" server. This will be using a different WAN connection and would be connected to the internet separately from the old network.
I took my "disposable" DC over to the NAT network but DNS and DHCP will not start. I assume because it doesn't see the GC, have the FSMO roles, or other needed pieces.
Is there an outline of steps I would want to perform to do this test, without taking down the two live DCs on the old subnet before I'm ready?
Thoughts?
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i am trying to understand your question, but i think you might need to configure sites and services and for DHCP you might need to configure DHCP relay agent
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This was exactly what I needed to do, and it was a success. The links were great. I'll be shutting down the test network and doing the real migration tonight. Thanks!
Bob
Bob
Best practices for DNS client settings on DC and domain members.
http://abhijitw.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/best-practices-for-dns-client-settings-on-domain-controller/
Once the IP address is changed reboot the server for registration to take place corretly.You need to seize the fsmo role once done.Check the AD sites and services are set correctly as per n/w subnet.Verify the health of DC by dcdiag /q .You also need to remove the instances of other live DC which are not move else replication failure will occur.