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 KesslerThe 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 DCsThey should already have these.> 3. Demote the Default Site DCsYes> 4. Delete the Default SiteYou 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? > > HenningPerhaps I should have said 'all your required subnets'. Rowland