Hello Bettie,
If your new DNS server work as aspected in the moment, you don't have to
remove it before promoting to DC's. Just change them from secondary to active
directory integrated after promotion. During the promotion set the primary
DNS to one of your running DC's for a good AD replication.
Best regards
Myweb
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[Quoted Text] > I have 2 new 2003R2 server that I ahve installed DNS on. I have two
> old DNS servers on W2000. Per KB article I set up the two new DNS
> servers a secondary servers for the zones on one of the W2000 servers
> with the idea that later I would promote one to be primary and get rid
> of the old server. Then I looked at the second old W2000 DNS server
> and saw that it was also a primary. The W2000 DNS's are AD integrated.
> Should I have set up the new DNS servers as both primary as well? They
> are not in service yet so I can scrap all the zones and easily start
> over.
>
> The other question I have is that these two new servers are also going
> to be promoted to DC's soon. A friend of mine said that I should
> delete the DNS on the new servers and install after they are promoted.
> IS that true?
>
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