Is it best practice to promote a DC with the permenant IP address?

M

Majid Hameed

I promoto a DC in my LAN before moving it to a remote
location to use as a remote DC. Of course, the IP
addresses need to be changed from one location to
another. I have been doing this with all my remote DCs
since the beginning, but it has been suggested that the
best practice is to create the DC with not just the
permenant name (since you can't change it after the
promotion anyways) but also the permanant IP address.
This would require I promoto the DC over the WAN which is
contrary to MS docs suggesting I promote in the LAN as per
a reply I recieved from another question I posted:

http://search.communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/previewF
rame.asp?
ICP=tnmanaged&sLCID=US&sgroupURL=microsoft.public.win2000.a
ctive_directory&sMessageID=%253C2mg0a5Fmr0o9U1@uni-
berlin.de%253E

Does anyone know of any MS articles or documentation to
support the suggested practice?
 
M

Matjaz Ladava [MVP]

No, you can freely change IP address of DC after promotion and move it to a
different site. I do it constantly and have no problems with it. Just make
sure, that new IP is registered in DNS server after the changge, by
restarting netlogon service.

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Regards

Matjaz Ladava
MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
(e-mail address removed), (e-mail address removed)
 
P

ptwilliams

This may be of some assistance (basically a lengthy explanation of what
Matjaz said):
-- http://www.msresource.net/kb/DCsiteMove.html

Indeed, I believe this is not only the recommended way, but the only
reasonable way. Doing this over WAN links not only takes ages, but could
prove problematic in the event of possible data corruption or at least a
break half way through (granted the AD can easily recover from this, but do
you need the hassle??).

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I promoto a DC in my LAN before moving it to a remote
location to use as a remote DC. Of course, the IP
addresses need to be changed from one location to
another. I have been doing this with all my remote DCs
since the beginning, but it has been suggested that the
best practice is to create the DC with not just the
permenant name (since you can't change it after the
promotion anyways) but also the permanant IP address.
This would require I promoto the DC over the WAN which is
contrary to MS docs suggesting I promote in the LAN as per
a reply I recieved from another question I posted:

http://search.communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/previewF
rame.asp?
ICP=tnmanaged&sLCID=US&sgroupURL=microsoft.public.win2000.a
ctive_directory&sMessageID=%253C2mg0a5Fmr0o9U1@uni-
berlin.de%253E

Does anyone know of any MS articles or documentation to
support the suggested practice?
 
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