Re: AD all screwed up

Jorge,

Thanks for the guidance. Is this something that needs to be done after
hours, or can I work with MS to clean this up during business hours? Will
there me many restarts of other servers or by cleaning up this one DC others
will follow?

Jeff

"Jorge Silva" wrote:

-Yes, you can do that, but for a clean, clean forest you would be better
with a new forest then using migration only for the objects that you needed.

-In your situation, I would FIRST solve all the issues that I had, then and
only after that I would add the new server transfer the FSMO roles, DNs,
etc... and remove the old one, be aware that with Exchange you need a GC
available for the exchange, and is also a good practice before depromoting
the old DC from network, take it offline for a week or so, and check if
there're complaints, if not, turn the old DC on and you're ready to take it
off the network safely.



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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services


"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jorge,

I would like to add an additional DC to an existing domain. I would like
to
remove our old exchange server, that currently hold the roles of DC, GC,
DNS
and DHCP. I would like to remove this server completely from our domain.
I
know I will need to transfer all roles to another DC.

I have upgraded from Exchange 2000 to E2K7 and, as required, upgraded to
AD
2003 in compatability mode.

I currently have 2 other DC's, not counting the one I want to get rid of.
One is a W2K and the other is W2k3. My ultimate goal is to get completely
to
W2K3.

Jeff

"Jorge Silva" wrote:

Hi
What are you trying to do?
- Create a new forest and migrate the AD objects (in this situation you
can
migrate only what you need)?
- Or add a additional DC to the existing Domain (In this scenario you can
and should clean the mess)?


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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services


"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, I took over as the IT guy at my company and have a mess on my
hands.
It
has been almost a year of putting out fires and cleaning up after the
other
guy. I have FINALLY goten to a point where I must clean up AD. I am
starting to have pretty serious connection issues. I will be removing
our
current AD server from our environment and I want to know if I should
clean
up AD first, then replicate to a new server or should I replicate,
demote
and
remove old server, then clean up AD?

This will be a service call to MS, so I also need to know how much will
it
interfere with daily operations, or do I need to do it after hours?

Thanks,

Jeff






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