Hi. I’ve been browsing around here for some time and I always get good information out of here. Today I am looking for some specific help with this scenario.
I have and AD domain which we are currently hosting several applications out of. The Apps are slated to be decomissioned in 8 months. As a result I’m consolidating servers and services to a much smaller and different network. I don’t want to have to recreate a different AD for this as I need to keep the user accounts intact. I also cant’ just move the existing DCs as I cant move anybody over to the new network until I have the new infrastructure up and running and tested.
Can I just take one of the DCs from the existing prod AD, move it to the new network, seize all the FSMO roles and use that as my new AD? Is there a better way of doing this? Are there any particular issues I should be concerned in doing this? Any help or advise would be great.
