Re: Fsmo role transfers

If you are moving dns, wins, etc... I would try to do this after normal
business hours. Are you prepared so that if the server ip address changes
all your clients that use this new ip address will be updated (WINS, DNS)?
The Time To Live (TTL) should expire on any dns records if you do after
hours since by the time users come back in they will have to hit the dns
server. Transferring roles can be done most anytime, just give your ad time
to replicate before making other changes. Transfering user folders is
something that should also be done after hours othrwise you are going to get
file locks from open files.

Order shouldn't matter.

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"mikea" <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4167CC49-9B3C-41C1-9FD7-D0A89945B94E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am getting ready to switch our main AD server(the one that holds all the
> fsmo roles)for a newer server. I'm aware of the procedure to transfer the
> 5
> main roles. I am wanting to transfer them all to the new server. The
> server
> also holds a good number of user folders, shares and is the dns, dhcp,
> wins
> and time server as well. I am looking at doing this in 3 steps or phases.
> Transferring all user folders to the new server. Then transferring the
> fsmo
> roles to it. Then dns, dhcp and wins after that. Just wondering if the
> order of operations matters here, or is one order better than another.
> And
> in terms of AD, is this something that should be done after hours. Thanks


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