microsoft sms 2003 - ip address change. impact on secondary site?

[Peter A. Berger Jr.]

Our branch office LAN is getting re-subnetted and the secondary sms 2003 site server will get a new ip address and subnet mask. This server is also a Domain Controller/Global Catalog.

Other than changing the IP information inside Windows 2003SP1 Domain Controller network card properties, how will changing the IP affect SMS2003?
Will SMS realize the changes and continue flawlessly, or will we have to delete and re-install the secondary SMS site?

Any help/411 would be great. Thanks...

[Igor Karasik · Accepted solution]

Sms 2003 secondary site can handle IP changes with no problem.
You only need to change the IP
subnet boundary for the secondary site if you use boundary according IP.
If you use boundary according AD site name - you doesn't need to do any change.

[Ivan Ferreira]

About SMS 2003 I dont know, I just want to add that you should also verify the DNS entries for the server.

You could also, meanwhile, use a secondary IP address on the server.

[Peter A. Berger Jr.]

All: Thanks for the help/tips.
I also found on another forum that I should update the AD Sites & Services (subnets) for that particular site.
We do use the IP subnets for SMS Site boundaries, so, as long as I update AD Sites * Service in addition to the SMS Site boundaries we should be fine.

[Prasad S.V.R.]

Hi,

If the secondary Server is getting a new IP and subnet, make sure that it is(Subnet) added in AD. and make necessary changes in SMS 2003 Site boundaries(Pull it out from AD).

Coming to second consideration, the systems that were reporting to this Secondary site earlier will may not report to this server as this sec. sms server got an IP change and subnet too. So if there are any custom collection that u made for easy access will no where work.

Please let me know if you need any further information or clarifications.

[Peter A. Berger Jr.]

all - thanks for the help/tips...