DHCP Planning

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Dave Clark

We are currently an NT shop and use DHCP on NT. We will
be doing a MIGRATION to Active Directory, so the NT side
of the house will still exist while AD is being deployed.

Been thinking about how to handle DHCP and what would be
the best way to do this? Should the DHCP be moved first
to the AD boxes and served from there? should it remain
on the NT side until all the clients are moved into AD?
Should we do it an entierly different way?

Any recommendations or experiences?
 
Just an FYI, I would put DHCP as a lower issue if you are
running NT and wish to bring 2000 and AD into this
domain. DHCP can run on any server on your system but AD
and domains are much more tricky. If possible you may
want to even upgrade the PDC of your domain to 2000 server
so the existing domain user ID's can be migrated over. If
you have multiple NT systems that are also running as
BDC's then your 2000 FSMO or what we used to call the PDC
will have to run in mixed mode and not native untill all
NT boxes are either migrated or DCpromo'ed down as member
servers. No NT systems can be part of a Native AD
domain. Once all NT systems are gone you can upgrade to
native though. Once your Domain is established you can
then migrate the dhcp to a new server within the domain.
The above mentioned link does also show as far as DHCP the
way to go.
 
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