Re: Child domain contains an underscore. What are my options?

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I agree. Migrate the domain. This may be a great opportunity to collapse down to one domain since the past advice of an empty root has been depreciated.
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uR9sfVoAKHA.528@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tomas Cabral <Tomas Cabral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am working on upgrading our email infrastructure from exchange 2003
to Exchange 2007. Everything is in a single forest that contains a
parent and child domain; however, the child domain contains an
underscore in the DNS name, e.g.
'child_domain.parentdomain.example.com', from a previous novell
migration. Therefore, I can install exchange in the parent domain but
not in the child and I cannot run domainprep in the child. I have set
up a lab where I can add users from the child domain to exchange by
adjusting the scope but things like OWA will not work because the
child domain isnt configured properly. At this point there will be
unreasonable costs associated with changing the domain name /
migrating to one without an underscore. What are my options? Is there
a manual override to the install prerequisites? I will point out that
this domain name is only used internally and mail recipients recieve
mail with an address at the root level e.g. soandso@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I don't know that you have any good alternatives to renaming the child domain. Since it doesn't have Exchange in it already, it's possible to do it. Or migrate. Or move everyone out to the parent domain ...what's the need to maintain this as is with a child domain in the first place?


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