Moving AD to a new hardware

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Hi , my first dc for my domain was installed on a low spec hardware and I have another dc in the domain which was on a better hardware. Now I want to move the first DC to a new hardware. Any procedure on how to attempt this??
 
Install the new server as a DC in the existing domain then transfer all FSMO
roles and networking services (DNS, WINS, DHCP) away from the old one if it
held any. Now you can dcpromo the older server back down to a member server
and shut it down.

Saravanan said:
Hi , my first dc for my domain was installed on a low spec hardware and I
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have another dc in the domain which was on a better hardware. Now I want to
move the first DC to a new hardware. Any procedure on how to attempt this??
 
Saravanan, you may can have help of the article below, or you may want to
install Windows Server on the new hardware, promote it to Domain Controller
and then demote the old one, I think that should be the best way.

263532 - How to perform a disaster recovery restoration of Active Directory
on a computer with a different hardware configuration
This article describes how to perform a disaster recovery restoration of the
Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory domain controller on a computer that
has a different hardware configuration from that of the computer where you
performed the Active...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263532

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Saravanan said:
Hi , my first dc for my domain was installed on a low spec hardware and I
Click to expand...
have another dc in the domain which was on a better hardware. Now I want to
move the first DC to a new hardware. Any procedure on how to attempt this??
 
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