Re: rename 2003 dom or not?

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From: Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] (mwport_at_no_spam_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:51:30 -0500

Maybe some info here Cris...

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain Rename Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx 

-- 
Merv  Porter  [SBS MVP]
===================================
"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@computingnospampossibilities.net>
wrote in message news:%23WgsTskDFHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Actually I have a client with the exact same situation.
> I'm going to try to do some further research on renaming the domain and
I'll
> post anything I get
>
> -- 
> Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup and not to me directly so that everyone
> can benefit from the information
> "Chad A Gross [SBS-MVP]" <chad.gross@laytonflower.nospam.com> wrote in
> message news:ef$KzekDFHA.2632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Chris -
> >
> > First - you don't want to use a public top-level-domain for your
internal
> > AD domain name - try xyz.local, or xyz.lan or xyz.anything
> >
> > http://imho.dyndns.org/addns.htm
> >
> > Second - if you want to migrate your domain instead of starting from
> > scratch, then you definitely want to rename while you only have a single
> > Win2k3 DC.  As soon as you introduce SBS or Exchange into the domain,
you
> > don't want to think about renaming.
> >
> > I'll admit that I haven't renamed a domain before - so I don't know if
> > there's any gunk left over in AD from the process.  You *might* be
better
> > off in the long run to start fresh with a clean install of SBS, and then
> > again - you might be able to rename the domain before you migrate and be
> > fine as well . . . .   how's that for a definitive answer?  ;^)
> >
> > -- 
> > Chad A. Gross  [SBS-MVP]
> >
> > SBS ROCKS!!!
> >
> > "Chris Nagle" <naglec30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:O%238om9jDFHA.3888@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >>    As I said in an earlier post, I'm about to roll out SBS 2003 from a
> >> standard Win 2003 server. All I have is 1 dc and 15 clients. I am
> >> probably going to do an in place upgrade (or transfer because its a new
> >> machine)
> >>
> >>    I want to rename the current win 2003 domain abc.xyz.com to just
> >> xyz.com. xyz.com is our current hosted email domain name and I'm
> >> transferring this to the new SBS.
> >>        Should I go about renaming the current domain (via rendom), or
> >> just start from scratch with SBS 2003 and reconnect the 15 clients and
> >> redo their profiles?
> >>
> >> Thanks In Advance
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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