Migrating AD (Windows Server 2003) from one Subnet to Another

Hi,

I'm posting this in the hope that someone can advise me.

I have an existing Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environment, which
is being used for developmental purposes. This environment sits on a
network with the IP address configuration 10.0.200.0/24 and this subnet is
defined within the AD and both of the servers have IP addresses within this
network - 10.0.200.1/24 and 10.0.200.101/24.

I now need to migrate this environment from the 10.0.200.0/24 network to the
10.200.0.0/16 network. How do I go about preparing to do this? Can I just
change the IP addressing information on both of the servers, and create a
new subnet object in AD, assign the new subnet and reboot a few times and
wait for AD replication to take effect?

Many thanks in advance...

Neil

I can suggest to:

Move 1 DC and 1 DNS sever (if you use an Active Directory integrated zone
you must move only the DC) in the new subnet.
Be sure that the replicas between the DCs works properly. Check the DNS
replicas too.
Move a client in the new subnet and check its functionality.
Move all the other servers.

Bye



"Neil Hobbs" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm posting this in the hope that someone can advise me.
>
> I have an existing Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environment, which
> is being used for developmental purposes. This environment sits on a
> network with the IP address configuration 10.0.200.0/24 and this subnet is
> defined within the AD and both of the servers have IP addresses within this
> network - 10.0.200.1/24 and 10.0.200.101/24.
>
> I now need to migrate this environment from the 10.0.200.0/24 network to the
> 10.200.0.0/16 network. How do I go about preparing to do this? Can I just
> change the IP addressing information on both of the servers, and create a
> new subnet object in AD, assign the new subnet and reboot a few times and
> wait for AD replication to take effect?
>
> Many thanks in advance...
>
> Neil
>
>
>

Thankyou for the information, I really appreciate your input...

It sounds very simple, which is very good. I only have two servers in this
environment - one DC running DNS with AD-Integrated Zones and a member
server running SQL 2000.

Many thanks,



"Nuklear" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsB6700FD-36C0-4B09-B778-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I can suggest to:
>
> Move 1 DC and 1 DNS sever (if you use an Active Directory integrated zone
> you must move only the DC) in the new subnet.
> Be sure that the replicas between the DCs works properly. Check the DNS
> replicas too.
> Move a client in the new subnet and check its functionality.
> Move all the other servers.
>
> Bye
>
>
>
> "Neil Hobbs" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm posting this in the hope that someone can advise me.
>>
>> I have an existing Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environment,
>> which
>> is being used for developmental purposes. This environment sits on a
>> network with the IP address configuration 10.0.200.0/24 and this subnet
>> is
>> defined within the AD and both of the servers have IP addresses within
>> this
>> network - 10.0.200.1/24 and 10.0.200.101/24.
>>
>> I now need to migrate this environment from the 10.0.200.0/24 network to
>> the
>> 10.200.0.0/16 network. How do I go about preparing to do this? Can I
>> just
>> change the IP addressing information on both of the servers, and create a
>> new subnet object in AD, assign the new subnet and reboot a few times and
>> wait for AD replication to take effect?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance...
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>>