Jon Fleming 
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| 5/29/2008 04:39 PM |
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SBS 2003 standard SP2, no ISA, single NIC.
One of our 100 Mb switches just bit the dust, so I bought a brand new 24 port gigabit switch. Of course we're running the server on the motherboard's built-in NIC which is 100 Mb, so the gigabit switch is overkill at the moment. Gigabit cards are almost free now, so I'd like to pop one in. Can I just disable the motherboard's NIC and assign the same old IP address to the new NIC in Control Panel | Network Connections, or are there other places I have to reset as well? (I don't see anything obvious in SBS Server Management).
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Eriq Neale
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| 5/30/2008 03:22 PM |
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Jon -
There's a very specific process you need to go through to change out the server NIC, and it's not as simple as changing out the old for the new. Here's the best practice for changing out the NIC.
1. install the MS Loopback Network Adapter in Network Connections.
2. In Device Manager, uninstall the original NIC, but do not restart the server.
3. Configure the MS Loopback adapter to have the same IP address as the original internal NIC.
4. Run the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard and go through the Networking configuration. This makes sure the server will look to the Loopback adapter as the primary NIC in the system.
5. Shut down the server, remove the old NIC, install the new.
6. Bring the server up and install the drivers for the new NIC.
7. Uninstall the Loopback adapter, but do not restart the server.
8. Configure the new NIC to have the same IP address as the original internal NIC.
9. Run the Configure E-mail and internet Connection Wizard and go through the networking configuration.
10. Restart the server.
It's possible the sever startup process will still take 20-30 minutes even going through these steps, but the last few times I've done this, i haven't had that issue. You may also want to run the Change Server IP Address wizard (not actually changing the IP address) before running the CEICW, but the above process should work for you.
HTH...
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Eriq Neale
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| 5/30/2008 06:38 PM |
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I thought those were on the site, but couldn't quickly put my fingers on them. Thanks for the links!
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EON Consulting LLC www.eonconsulting.net
Lead Author of Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed
In bookstores December 10, available for pre-order now
Listen to eOnCall at AIRtunZ or visit www.eoncall.com. |
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Jon Fleming
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| 5/30/2008 08:10 PM |
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| Oh, thanks a lot! That's incredibly helpful. |
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Brian Mayo
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| 5/31/2008 05:31 PM |
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Curious what issues the above procedure is supposed to avoid...I've replaced NICs in SBS boxes before..as well as other DCs..without issues.
Naturally the first reboot takes a while because active directory is dependent on DNS..which will fail to load until things are settled in on the new NIC.
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Eriq Neale
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| 6/02/2008 07:51 PM |
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It's all about time and errors. I am personally a very lazy person and don't want to wait the 30 minutes it takes the system to reboot because it can't talk to it's own AD/DNS. Plus this approach makes sure that there aren't any leftover network settings lying around that could cause problems down the road. The last time I did this, I had the entire process done in about 20 minutes, which was 10 minutes less than I would have spent just waiting on that first reboot.
HTH...
-Eriq |
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EON Consulting LLC www.eonconsulting.net
Lead Author of Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed
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Jon Fleming
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Jon Fleming
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| 6/07/2008 06:12 PM |
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Whoops, one minor weirdness ... in Active Directory Users and Computers, the first level is bioprocessconsultants.local. In IIS manager, the first level is bptc-server. In the default web site we have our time-and-expenses tracker installed, set to accept connections from any computer.
The time-and-expenses tracker web page used to be available on http://{FQDN}/{Application}, http://bptc-server/{Application}, and http://bioprocessconsultants.local/{Application}. The first two still work but the third one does not.
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Marina Roos
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| 6/08/2008 06:58 PM |
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Hi Jon,
Did you rerun CEICW after replacing the nic?
Please, post an ipconfig /all from the server and a workstation. Open a command prompt by opening Start -> Run from the Start Menu and type cmd. From the command prompt type ipconfig /all >ip.txt. Attach this file to your answer.
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Jon Fleming
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| 6/09/2008 02:50 AM |
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Yes, I followed Mr. Neale's instructions exactly, I ran CEICW and rebooted afterwards. I also had to set the time-and-expenses tracker site to be available from outside, as CEICW always sets it to be available only from inside. But I've done that many times before.
I may come not be able to come up with an ipconfig /all until Teusday. |
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Jon Fleming
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| 6/09/2008 05:43 PM |
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Here's the ipconfig outputs. I notice the server has no connection-specific DNS suffix, but other than that all looks OK to me.
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Marina Roos
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| 6/11/2008 02:39 PM |
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Hi Jon,
You are missing WINS on the server nic.
What is the dns BPTC-Guest doing on the client?? And why are you using wired and wireless on that client??
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Jon Fleming
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| 6/11/2008 05:13 PM |
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The bioprocessconsultants.local URL started working. No idea why. But I should look into WINS. Any pointers?
BPTC-Guest is mostly interent access for our guests; it's between our firewall router and our Internet router and has no access to our internal LAN. So there's two routers between our server and the Internet. The client is my machine, and I regularly unplug the network cable to check how outside access is working, or even to VPN in from the wireless network to test that. |
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