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More info?)
Thats excellant, worked brilliantly. Thank you for the re-assurance.
one other q;
The secondary DNS's on non DC's they will be updated as they are,
automatically?
Thank you once again
"Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
news:uA97GK6UEHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> In news:epWhGI4UEHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> jibriel <jibriel@yahoo.com> posted a question
> Then Kevin replied below:
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > But this is the first time i am trying to change the primary to AD
> > integrated and when i come to apply it it comes back with a warning.
> > ' A zone with this name already exists in Active Directory.
>
> If you are getting this obviously you've had AD integrated zones before
and
> they were changed.
>
> > What do
> > you want to do? and the two options are a) Discard the new zone, and
> > load the existing zone from AD b) Overwrite the existing zone in AD
> > with the new zone.'
> >
> > Just would like to know what will be the the better option and also
> > can you please explain exactly what each option will do.
>
> Use this:
> b) Overwrite the existing zone in AD with the new zone.'
>
>
> >
> > And also does that mean that I will not be able to have DNS on other
> > servers which are not DC's.
>
> No it does not, but under Win2k only DCs can have AD integrated zones, non
> DCs or DCs in other domains will have to use Secondary zones because
Active
> Directory won't replicate to them.
>
> > Also please can you reassure me that If i change from primary to AD
> > live on the network that i would not encounter any disruptions.
>
> You should be just fine.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
> Hope This Helps
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