Project duration: 3 months, with the possibility of extension
Mission
Safely decommission the old domain servers after migrating all remaining dependencies and services.
Responsibilities
- Rehearse a full restore of the old directory in a test environment.
- Move the name-resolution service (DNS) off the old servers.
- Clean up the old directory and take a full backup export before teardown.
- Hand over the special roles of the domain servers and switch the three domain servers off one by one, including FSMO transfer and demotion.
- Move the management servers to a setup that no longer requires the old domain.
- Decide with the client what happens to the 52 unknown server records.
- Move database and service accounts off old Windows logins.