Hi:
The company I am working for just bought a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 and I have been tasked with getting it up and running. I have already installed Windows 2003 Server with SP2 and have it online in the same subnet as our existing 2003 domain. I have not joined it to our existing domain yet. It is in it’s own workgroup for now until I get this figured out.
Our current domain controller has some problems and I’m not sure the person who set it up knew what they were doing as it has a lot of Active Directory issues that I don’t really want to get into as it’s a long story. Anyway, I don’t want to just transfer over the DC duties to this new server and demote the old one as I don’t want to transfer over the old AD/DNS/Group Policy problems to the new domain/DC.
So, how do I go about building a new domain controller/domain on the same subnet, side by side with the existing domain without messing anything up with the current domain? What would be the best approach? Steps, procedures, etc?
Thanks in advance,
austinringding
ATX