Dns Advice Needed. Moving From Server 2000 To Server 2008.

[fishy007]

We have a really old 2000 Server that is currently running our DNS. I want to move that over to a Server 2008 box, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. The Server 2008 box is already configured as DC and I have the DNS service installed, but it's not configured. I'm wondering if I can do it one of two ways:

1) Set up the 2008 box to be an additional DNS server and then simply take the 2000 server offline.

2) Set up a new DNS configuration on the Server 2008 box and then tell DHCP to give everyone IPs with the Server 2008 box as the DNS server.

I have no idea which is the better course of action or how to actually do either. The current DNS setup on the Server 2000 box has some minor errors, but I figured I'd clean them up if replication and removal (scenario 1) is the easiest way to go about things. Any advice?


Please note that I am not an expert in DNS configuration (yet?) so some of what I have said may be foolish or just plain wrong. Please let me know if you can suggest any other courses of action. Thanks for any help that can be provided!

 

[ICTCity]

Hi,

you should not have trouble moving your DNS on 2k8 box.

First of all, enable DNS service on your new server (there's no problem).

To be a bit more secure, login into one of your client which are already on your domain and do the following:

Change MANUALLY the ip of the primary DNS make it pointing to the new server, as a secondary DNS type anything.
open command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns"
Now try to restart and check if everything is working (network drive, printers and so on).

Let me know.