Re: Upgrade AD server hardware

many thanks

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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soregg <se@xxxxx> wrote:
Many thanks!

You're most welcome - best o luck.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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soregg <se@xxxxx> wrote:
you are right, old colleagues use static ip to record user's
traffic. we plan to upgrade to DHCP and sth to record it, is it ISA
good enough?

ISA would be much better. IP addresses can be spoofed. And DHCP is
the way to go if you have more than a tiny handful of computers.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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soregg <se@xxxxx> wrote:
thank you very much. however, may you advise if we are not using
DHCP? v.v

Then you could change the IP address of the new server to be that
of the old server - after you've changed the old server's IP to
something else.c> However, I can't imagine any reason you wouldn't
be using DHCP for your clients, honestly. Statics are such a pain
to deal with.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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soregg <se@xxxxx> wrote:
May be I could better discribe my case.

My company has 2 ad servers which is also the DNS and WINS
server. Now we could like to upgrade the server from a P3
machine to a powerful machine. I don't know AD much, so I just
wonder could I just clone it ^^

I'd personally think it was a lot of extra work. I'd just build
another server, dcpromo it, install WINS, and let DNS and WINS
replication do their thing, then get rid of the old server. There
should be no need for your server to have the same name as the
old one, and you can change your DHCP settings to give out the
new IP address to the clients.

"soregg" <se@xxxxx> wrote in message
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Many thanks, however, I just afraid AD objects are recoignized
by Hardware ID, so I ask in here ^^

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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soregg <se@xxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,

Could I just Clone the existing win2003 AD servers in order
to upgrade its hardware by saying ghost/acronis please?

Thank you for your advise.

soregg

Maybe. But if the hardware is sufficiently different, Windows
won't even run. Acronis TrueImage's latest version (Echo) and
the associated "Universal Restore" add-on, may help - but you
should test this first on spare hardware. Much depends on what
(and how much) hardware is being upgraded.

Note that this isn't an AD issue - I suggest you post future
similar questions in microsoft.public.windows.server.general.





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