Small Business Server 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration and Virtualized Domain Controller Questions
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Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
The host has two virtual switches...which one do I make the DNS entry for? Doesn't matter really?
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
That's not a good process. I've done that and it is unnecessarily painful. Instead use DHCP to push out the new IP address as the primary and the old one as the secondary.
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
The host has two virtual switches...which one do I make the DNS entry for? Doesn't matter really?
The one that RDP is listening on
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I think I am going to wait until NEXT Friday. Either I am making this harder than it is or I am constantly encountering more detours and new considerations.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
That's not a good process. I've done that and it is unnecessarily painful. Instead use DHCP to push out the new IP address as the primary and the old one as the secondary.
IN a sick way, I am OK with manually going to each PC on the night I do this to change the preferred DNS server address...that way, I can catch the PC's not on a static and make them static...it is also another way I can verify the migration worked and all PC's look good.
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You want them to all be static? Why not DHCP?
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Why not run the old system and the new side by side for a few weeks?
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@scottalanmiller said:
You want them to all be static? Why not DHCP?
Again, my weak areas are showing. Networking...I've never configured DHCP.
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Oh. You definitely want to do that. Not hard at all. And will make this kind of stuff much easier.
How many hosts on the network?
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Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
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@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
About 50 workstations...several printers with IP's (not via print server)...SQL Server, two nas's...software firewall...
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
About 50 workstations...several printers with IP's (not via print server)...SQL Server, two nas's...software firewall...
That is a lot to manage without DHCP but not horrible. Servers and NAS wouldn't be DHCP normally either way.
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I am about to collate my notes and go talk to owners...I may put this off until next week. The recent DHCP discussion and the way the VM's are sluggish in a remote desktop session makes me a little nervous about how it will react in a real environment...I am about to test some things with a mapped drive to the services01 VM right now.
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Got my "chill pill." Putting this off another week so I can test Unitrends, do some testing of our simple applications and procedures, try the DHCP things and flesh out my understanding of Hyper-V.
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Good idea. You will feel much better.
Start with DHCP. Start rolling that out tomorrow.
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You've been patient and a major help! Will update as I can and take advantage of this site!
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We're all just here to help one another
