samba - Feb 2021 - Best upgrade path, upgrade in-place or add new DCs and demote old?

I would go the number two way :-). You will have all new systems, no old
packages left. And , I think you still using the internal DNS, I would
switch to bind9 as DNS-Server.


Am 12.02.21 um 19:12 schrieb Max Olivas via samba:
> Hello,
> 
> I have two Samba AD DCs on Ubuntu 19.04 running the stock Ubuntu Samba
versions (2:4.10.0) and schema version 47.  I need to upgrade to Samba 4.11 or
higher with schema version 69 and would like to know what is the 'best'
path?
> 
> 1. Upgrade in-place to Ubuntu to 20.04 (on the secondary DC first) to get
Samba 2:4.11.6
> 2. Add a new Ubuntu 20.04 DC to the directory and transfer FSMO roles,
demote old DCs, put DNS forwarders at the IPs for the old DCs?
> 3. Upgrade Samba using packages outside the stock Ubuntu sources to get to
4.11 or higher?
> 4. Something I haven't thought of???
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Thanks,
> Max
>

On 12/02/2021 19:04, Stefan Kania via samba wrote:
> I would go the number two way :-). You will have all new systems, no old
> packages left. And , I think you still using the internal DNS, I would
> switch to bind9 as DNS-Server.

Actually I would go with a mixture of 2, 3 and 4 ?

Use Debian on new DC's and use Louis's repo: https://apt.van-belle.nl/

Rowland