Re: Demoting and rebuilding a DC

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From: Paul McGuire (paulmcguire_at__no_spam_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:12:39 -0500

As long as this is not the only DC in the domain. When you bring the new
server you will have the same name and Ip address. Everything should work.

HTH

Paul

"Brandon McHenry" <bcmchenry@nmrc.state.ms.us> wrote in message
news:%23At7DbCOEHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Greetings,
>
> I have search Microsofts KB for info and come up with How to
> promote and Demote DC's as my only source of information. What I will be
> doing is taking a current DC and basically transferring all the data off
> of it then taking it offline and putting in a new 2003 server. I want to
> use the same server name for the new server. So I will demote the DC,
> then bring it down....put in the new server and dcpromo it up. Is that
> all I need to do or is there something more I may be overlooking? Any
> tips or links would be helpful, thank you in advance.
>
> Brandon
>

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