Re: After Domain Rename - Can I remove old DNS Zone

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:16:01 -0600

In news:92FD272F-A877-4896-84CC-C3BB7954A74A@microsoft.com,
John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
> Hi,
>
> I have renamed the domain and have created a new zone for
> the new domain name. I still have the old zone as
> xyz.abc.local. Can I delete this zone?
>
> Second question
>
> My _msdcs.xyz.abc.local has not changed to
> _msdcs.xyz.abc.com. But my domain and everything has been
> renamed. So, should I leave it like this or should I do
> something about this or is there a way to get this
> _msdcs........... from .local to .com?
>
> Thank you in advance, and I thank Kevin, Nick and others
> who contributed a lot to my domain rename issue. It was
> worth it and it was really a challenge but successful.

Run netdiag /test:dns /debug
Is it clean? 

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