Re: Going to AD Integrated DNS

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 02/13/04


Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:51 -0600


> All you need to do is to delete the secondary zone off of one DC, then on
> the other DC just change it from Standard Secondary to Active Directory
> integrated, when you do that the zone will be replicated to the other DC
> with no further action on your part, It should take no more than fifteen
> minutes to replicate the zone if replication is working good.

Mistake above: Don't "Delete" the zone from the second but rather CHANGE
it to "AD Integrated" along with the other one.

Although both DCs will have the records they will not USE (or make them
available)
unless set to be AD integrated for that zone.

Also the original poster needs to recognize that "DNS clients" INCLUDE the
DCs
themselves. Change their NICs to point to the correct (new) DNS servers,
and just
to be safe restart "NetLogon" service after such changes.

One other thing: Don't do any of this unless your DCs are already
replicating
correctly. (Check DCDiag, Event Logs, or RepAdmin/RemlMon )

-- 
Herb Martin


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