I'm trying to find a way / the best way to migrate an existing non-AD 2003 DNS setup to a new AD integrated 2012 DNS setup.
The existing 2003 setup consists of several stand-alone servers, one of which is a acts as a PDC with Standard Primary domains configured on it. The other DNS servers have those same domains configured on them as secondary domains, and get the
details from the primary. We've got over a thousands zones configured, so scripting is a must.
We want to move to a new 2012 AD based infrastructure. Using Dean Wells' DNSDUMP script I can export the currently zones and settings from 2003, and I can use that to import them into a 2012 DNS server, however those domains obviously retain their existing
settings from the old setup.
Unless someone has a better suggestion on how to do the whole thing, the main issue I'm seeing is how to update each of the Standard Primary zones to become AD Integrated. I'm been hunting through the PowerShell 3 info for DNS, but unfortunately there's
not much documentation out there yet. I wondered if something like :
Set-DnsServerPrimaryZone -name "<zone>" -ReplicationScope "Domain"
would do the trick, but I get an error saying "This operation is not supported for the zone <zone> present on the server <server>.
Anyone know how to achieve this or a better way to do it?
Obviously I'll also need to script setting up the Secondary zones on the other DNS servers, and update the NS details on each zone, but by comparison that seems quite straight forward!