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We are moving away from our windows server to an apple server since the windows server is a decade old and we only have 4 windows machines vs the 26 apple computers and several linux machines. We are a large church but i am part time so I'm trying to do this in a staged shift, we have user shares already moved over to onedrive with out office 365 subscription and global shares will be handled via a synology NAS. So in doing this migration i want to leave some machines on the active directory while i move things over to the open directory. I want to immediately however change the DNS server and DHCP server to the mac server. Will the Active directory or its machine freak out when i do this since it currently handles both? i will of course go in and remove those server roles form the windows server. Will i need to do anything to the client machines left on the AD in the mean time? i know i will have to change the dns server address on the static clients(printers).
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We are moving away from our windows server to an apple server since the windows server is a decade old and we only have 4 windows machines vs the 26 apple computers and several linux machines. We are a large church but i am part time so I'm trying to do this in a staged shift, we have user shares already moved over to onedrive with out office 365 subscription and global shares will be handled via a synology NAS. So in doing this migration i want to leave some machines on the active directory while i move things over to the open directory. I want to immediately however change the DNS server and DHCP server to the mac server. Will the Active directory or its machine freak out when i do this since it currently handles both? i will of course go in and remove those server roles form the windows server. Will i need to do anything to the client machines left on the AD in the mean time? i know i will have to change the dns server address on the static clients(printers).

Active directory to open directory shift, dns and dhcp??

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an auto configuration protocol used on IP networks and an extension of the Bootstrap Protocol. DHCP allows for computers to be configured automatically to communicate with each other over an IP network without the need for manual setup by a network administrator. The implementation of DHCP relies on a DHCP server to hand out network configuration information to DHCP-capable clients that request an IP address (and other information required or useful in communicating with other devices on an IP network). In addition to an IP address, common configuration information served over DHCP includes a default gateway, subnet mask and DNS sever(s).

DHCP

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.