samba - Apr 2020 - Giving up AD Default Site

Hello,

I am a newbee on this list and hopefully someone can give me an advice regarding
my question.

I have a small Samba AD configured with 2 DCs in each of two Sites: the Default
Site and a Branch Office. Now the company wants shutdown the Default Site and
move everything into the Branch Office. How should I handle this? Just
transferring the FSMO roles from the primary DC on the Default Site to a DC in
the Branch Office and then demote the two DCs in Default Site and then deleting
the Default Site?

Any help or hints are highly appreciated 

Regards

Henning Kessler

On 24/04/2020 13:15, Henning Kessler via samba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a newbee on this list and hopefully someone can give me an advice
regarding my question.
>
> I have a small Samba AD configured with 2 DCs in each of two Sites: the
Default Site and a Branch Office. Now the company wants shutdown the Default
Site and move everything into the Branch Office. How should I handle this? Just
transferring the FSMO roles from the primary DC on the Default Site to a DC in
the Branch Office and then demote the two DCs in Default Site and then deleting
the Default Site?
>
> Any help or hints are highly appreciated
>
> Regards
>
> Henning Kessler
The only thing wrong with that is that you referred to the DC that holds 
the FSMO roles as the 'primary DC', there is no such thing as a primary 
DC, all DC's are equal except for the FSMO roles and they can be on any DC.

You do not need to use the default site, it is just there to save having 
to create one.

Rowland

On 24/04/2020 15:46, Henning Kessler wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> thanks for the explanation. So the steps would be
>
> 1. Transfer the FSMO role to a domain controller in the Branch Office 
> site.
Yes
> 2. Change the SOA and NS records for the Domain(s) to the Branch 
> Office DCs
They should already have these.
> 3. Demote the Default Site DCs
Yes
> 4. Delete the Default Site
You could probably leave it as is, but you can delete it you want, just 
make sure all your subnets are in the branch site.

Rowland

On 24/04/2020 16:51, Henning Kessler wrote:
>
>> Am 24.04.2020 um 17:21 schrieb Rowland penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>:
>>
> ...
>> You could probably leave it as is, but you can delete it you want, just
make sure all your subnets are in the branch site.
> even the ones that were only in use at the Default Site?
>
> Henning
Perhaps I should have said 'all your required subnets'.

Rowland