Hi all,
We want to migrate our domain controllers (server 2012R2 / DL/FL 2008R2) to server 2019 core DL/FL 2016 and keep the ip addresses but change hostnames.
Reason to keep ip addresses : many devices like printers, scanners, applications have the dns/ldap/... ip addresses manually configured to point to the domain controllers.
Current situation :
Domain controllers A and B with ip address 1 and 2 (A-1, B-2)
A and B have DHCP in failover mode (load balance), DNS, DFS, and ADDS.
C-3 and D-4 are newly installed server 2019 core domain controllers with the same roles but these domaincontrollers should have ip addresses 1 and 2 after the migration. This is our plan :
- migrate fsmo roles to C
- Create domain controllers C and D with ips 3 and 4, Server 2019 core, install all roles but dont authorize dhcp
- Demote B as ADDS (dhcp should not work now on B), authorize D as dhcp server, change dhcp failover replication partner on A to D (DHCP D should be synced with A now)
- Turn off B and remove NIC
- Change ip address D to 2 (old B address)
- Reboot D and monitor events (DHCP, DNS, ADDS, ...)
- Change DHCP replication partner D to C
- Demote A, turn off
- Change ip address C to 1 (old A ) + reboot
- check health state, monitor events, replication etc ...
- raise functional level to 2016 on domain,forest
- metadata cleanup
Any suggestions ?
kind regards