Rename Windows 2003 Domain

From: Jeremy Church (trombone79_at_juno.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:56:22 -0400

I have a client that setup their domain somewhat inconsistently with
Microsoft's recommended way. Their NetBIOS domain name is identical to
their DNS domain name. We have discussed with them about changing their DNS
domain name to something like domian.com or internal.domain.com. Something
other than just domain. They also own the name on the internet eg,
domain.com. This is required because of a few A records they would like to
have published externally.

They have one Exchange 2003 server. On the domain rename tool's web site, I
saw that Exchange installations are not supported. When I read the
documetation, it only mentioned Exchange 2000 as not being supported. Is
this a typo on the web site? I can see in the documentation that Exchange
2000 will not allow the rename tool to run. Does this mean that you can run
the rename tool with an Exchange 2003 server on the network, but it may not
work? If it's ok to have an Exchange 2003 server on the network, has anyone
renamed a domain with Exchange 2003 on it?

Thanks
Jeremy

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