I have a list of questions to ask about the best way to implement a new server into our existing setup. Ok here is the scenario we have. We currently have 1 server setup up as our DC on our domain. This server is running everything from our active directory, acts as our file and print server on top of running our business application (sql database) that each employee must access to do their daily work. Needless to say this server slows down dramatically when employees access our business application What I want to do is take the new server and implement it in to our current setup having it run our Active Directory on top of acting as our file and print server. This in return takes a load off our current server in which we want to only run our sql database for our business application. Hopefully this will speed up our application. My main question is. How do I implement this new server to take over the Active Directory roles?( i.e. would we set up replication then do a dcpromo to upgrade this server to the DC. (If so where do I start?) Or would it be easier to just recreate our active directory with the same domain name and transfer all our shared files over to the new server? (If so how would I go about putting the old server back on the network to allow users to connect to the database.) We have about 45 users across this network that will be accessing these servers. Any Help Would be Helpful!
