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moving dns from 2000 to 2003

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by kjrees

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Hi I've upgraded my domain to win2k3 AD from NT4 and prior to upgrade dns was running on a windows 2000 machine. DNS is workig fine, but I'd like to decommision this 2000 machine as it is old and make a win2k3 machine the sole DNS server. Do i have to set everything up again on the win2k3 machine or can i transfer DNS easily? Any suggestions what to do?

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by ray harding

Is the win2000 server a DC ?

Is DNS installed on the W2k3 DC ?

If so has DNS replication occured?

If the W2K box is a DC and the W2k3 Box has DNS installed and providing that the zones have replicated you can DCpromo the W2k box back down to a member server and uninstall DNS. Please be aware that you would also need to update all servers and clients (static/DHCP) ip configuration if they used the W2k server for DNS resolution.

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