Qustion on DNS and 2003 AD Integration

[ali2009]

We are currently in the planning stage for AD migration
from NT 4.0 to AD 2003

We have 2 major sites and 10 satellites sites in the US

Currently we have 3 Win 2000 servers which provide DNS,
WINS and DHCP.

We are trying to figure out the best way of integrating
DNS into AD.

One way we are looking into, is when migrating AD on the
PDC is to take out any DNS references under IP
configuration on the PDC, this way AD will creates new DNS
service and all AD related records. Then , we would
transfer the zones from the current Win 2000 DNS servers
into AD 1st DC and setup zone transfer between DDNS zone
on the AD DC and non AD-DNS zone on the win 2000 DNS
server which we want to keep as is.


My question, what's the down side to this plan, possible
issues or is there a better way of doing it?

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Hi,

This will work fine. When you create the active directory, the wizard will
take care of setting up the AD Integrated Zone for your domain. I'm assuming
the other DNS servers won't be domain controllers. In this case, you can
setup zone transfers from the DCs to the non-DC DNS Servers to keep the
zones available there.

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[Enkidu]

We are currently in the planning stage for AD migration
from NT 4.0 to AD 2003

We have 2 major sites and 10 satellites sites in the US

Currently we have 3 Win 2000 servers which provide DNS,
WINS and DHCP.

We are trying to figure out the best way of integrating
DNS into AD.

One way we are looking into, is when migrating AD on the
PDC is to take out any DNS references under IP
configuration on the PDC, this way AD will creates new DNS
service and all AD related records. Then , we would
transfer the zones from the current Win 2000 DNS servers
into AD 1st DC and setup zone transfer between DDNS zone
on the AD DC and non AD-DNS zone on the win 2000 DNS
server which we want to keep as is.


My question, what's the down side to this plan, possible
issues or is there a better way of doing it?

Why bother with that? Use the Win2k DNS servers on the existing
Win2000 member servers when you upgrade. Then when everything is
stable, then you rearrange the DNS to suit you.

Unless it is different under 2003. I know that it is possible between
NT4 and 2000. If it is different under 2003, can someone please
correct me?

Cheers,

Cliff