Re: fix domain name in AD

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:06:18 -0000

Realistically, you need to create a new domain company-name.com and migrate
the users to it.

You can fudge it from the clients point of view, like I said in my last
post, but this could cause confusion and additional administration.

What kind of size are we talking here?

How would you feel about creating a new forest and migrating user into it
using ADMT? 

-- 
Paul Williams
http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/
"Mike Fremont" <MikeFremont@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:01C2F05D-B7B8-4A80-8969-472E09F8831F@microsoft.com...
I ran the script and recived the following Info"
DC=domain,DC=companyname,DC=com
How do i get rid of the DC=domain.
I would like the domain to be mycompany.com?
Any help would be great.
M
"ptwilliams" wrote:
> To get the forest root name, use the following script:
>
> set objRootDse=getObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
> wscript.echo objRootDse.get("rootDomainNamingContext")
>
> (Paste that into notepad and save as filename.vbs; then double click the
> file)
>
> -- 
>
> Paul Williams
>
> http://www.msresource.net/
> http://forums.msresource.net/
>
> "Mike Fremont" <MikeFremont@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:53AA78E3-7303-413A-B2F3-2D1DF20759BF@microsoft.com...
> I inhareted the domain this way when I started the job.  I am not sure 
> what
> the forest root domin name is.  Is there an easy way to check and then if 
> so
> is it easy to fix.
>
> thanks
> M
>
>
> "Chriss3 [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Hello Mike.
> > I'm not sure what you mean here, if you have installed the forest root
> > domain, with the FQDN domain.company.com you have chosen this to be the
> > domain name?
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards
> > Christoffer Andersson
> > Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
> >
> > No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.chrisse.se - Active Directory Tips
> >
> > "mike fremont" <mike fremont@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i
> > meddelandet
> > news:0F755579-0320-4F27-9505-42B1AC766D08@microsoft.com...
> > > Currently our AD shows the following domain.company.com anytime I add 
> > > a
> > > new
> > > object (user or computer).  I would like to get this fixed to only 
> > > read
> > > company.com The DNS is also resolving to only the domain.company.com
> > > Please
> > > help as this is one of my many items needing fixed before I migrate to 
> > > a
> > > 2003
> > > AD.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Mike
> > > mike.fremont@trustile.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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