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    We have teamed NIC for domain controller and during promotion it is asking for DHCP assigned addres. Though the teamed NIC have static IP assigned. We tried with disable all other NIC as well as by disabling the passive NIC . Can anyone please suggest for this issue.
    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:36 AM

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    NIC Teaming does not by Microsoft. Disable the NIC teaming.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/f5dea401-5a3b-4ddb-8bb8-8d2b2e2db55b

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    • Edited by bshwjt Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:13 PM
    • Marked as answer by pbbergs [MSFT] Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:51 PM
    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:12 PM
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    Load balanced teamed NIC's are a bad practice for Domain Controllers, fault tolerant teamed NIC's should be fine.  I have confirmed this in the past with PSS.

    Are you saying you have a single NIC enabled on your box with a static IP address?  If not this is what is the normal practice for a DC, I would also make sure you uninstalled any teaming software and then rebooted the DC before pressing on.  There is plenty of poorly written teaming software out there and Microsoft has attempted to correct this with a new teaming feature in Server 2012.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2012/06/19/nic-teaming-in-windows-server-2012-brings-simple-affordable-traffic-reliability-and-load-balancing-to-your-cloud-workloads.aspx

    My recommendation would not team, although as I said it is supported in a fault tolerant mode.

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    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:58 PM

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    NIC Teaming does not by Microsoft. Disable the NIC teaming.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/f5dea401-5a3b-4ddb-8bb8-8d2b2e2db55b

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    Biswajit Biswas
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    • Edited by bshwjt Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:13 PM
    • Marked as answer by pbbergs [MSFT] Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:51 PM
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    Load balanced teamed NIC's are a bad practice for Domain Controllers, fault tolerant teamed NIC's should be fine.  I have confirmed this in the past with PSS.

    Are you saying you have a single NIC enabled on your box with a static IP address?  If not this is what is the normal practice for a DC, I would also make sure you uninstalled any teaming software and then rebooted the DC before pressing on.  There is plenty of poorly written teaming software out there and Microsoft has attempted to correct this with a new teaming feature in Server 2012.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2012/06/19/nic-teaming-in-windows-server-2012-brings-simple-affordable-traffic-reliability-and-load-balancing-to-your-cloud-workloads.aspx

    My recommendation would not team, although as I said it is supported in a fault tolerant mode.

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    Paul Bergson
    MVP - Directory Services
    MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
    MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
    2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
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    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:58 PM
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    Thank you Guys. Thank you pbbergs.

    Actually my intention was to use it for fault tolerence only .Though it was a demand from client side.

    I removed the IP addresses , dissolved the team and and disabled all other NICs which were not the part of team. Then I reassign the IP addresses to all teamed adapters. This time it worked fine. No Idea why it was not taking before.

    Regards,

    Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:18 PM