RE: Migration of workstations to renamed domain and server name?

Hello,

Thanks for posting in our newsgroup.

From your description, I know you want to change your domain name and SBS
server name. If I am off-base, please don't hesitate to let me know.

First, I would also like to know the exact reason why you want to change
the domain of your SBS server. If you just want to change the name of the
e-mail address, you only need to change recipient policy. For your SBS
domain, the name that the external users (internet user) try to access your
SBS server could be re-registered at your ISP and it could be different
from your internal SBS domain name. For the outgoing email domain name, it
is decided by the recipient policy. You could even re-run the CEICW to
change it. I think the internal domain name does not affect too much on
your SBS operation.

If you would like to change the email domain name, you could simply re-run
the CEICW and re-input the Email domain in the wizard. To run the CEICW,
please find it at Server Management -> To Do List -> Connect to Internet.

If you stick to change domain name and server name, after that, you need to
do the following tasks:

Step1: Before joining the client workstations to new SBS domain, create a
local profile, and then copy the old domain profile to a local profile. The
steps:

1). Logon locally with a Administrator account on the workstation.
2). Click Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced>User Profiles>Settings.
3). Highlight the network profile for the user. For example, NormH.
4). Select Copy To and direct the profile to copy to the local hard disk.
For example, C:\Temp. Click OK>OK.
5). From the Control Panel, launch Administrative Tools>Computer
Management.
6). Select System Tools>Local Users and Groups.
7). Select Users.
8). Right-click in the right-pane and select New User to add a user named
"Foo."
9). Double-click the user object and select the Profile tab to view the
properties for "Foo."
10). In the Profile path field, point to the exact profile you copied to
C:\Temp in Step 4. Click OK.
11). Close all open applications, re-start the Windows XP Pro machine.

Step2: Join back the client workstation to workgroup mode and re-join it to
the new domain with conncetcomputer wizard and map the profile to users in
new domain. The detail steps:

1). Logon the client with Administrator permissions and join it to
"Workgroup", and reboot the computer.

Right click My Computer to open its properties page, click Computer Name
tab, click Change button to re-join the computer to Workgroup.

2). Setup the client by running Setup Client Computer wizard to setup
computer account and assign related user account to the computer.

3). Logon the computer with Administrator permissions and join it to domain
by running http://servername/connectcomputer. And you can assign a domain
account to ??Users assigned to this computer??, and then choose the
existing local user profile in the ??Current User Settings??. By Default,
the value for ??Current User Settings?? is ??None??.

Note:??The wizard will allow you to map domain user accounts to local
profiles on the machine thus preserving your profiles: ??Assign Users to
this Computes and Migrate their Profiles??.

Note: Please ensure you have added the SBS Site (http://FQDN/*) in trusted
site in IE of the laptop.

Step3: In addition, if you use this method to map your domain account
profile to the existing local computer account when using the
Connectcomputer wizard, the resulting domain account will not have the
Outlook Exchange profile configured automatically, you will need to create
the Outlook profile to connect to your SBS Exchange server.

During server setup, a default .prf file named SBSDefault.prf is copied
from CD to \\%sbsserver\clients\Setup. The setup then updates two
instances of %SBSServer% with the name of the server. During client
configuration (ConnectComputer,) the file is copied to the client folder
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\Clients' and
%FaxTransport% is replaced with either MSFax XP (for Windows XP) or
SHAREDFAX XP (for Windows 2000).

The easiest way to create the SBS 2K3 Outlook profile is to remove all the
Outlook Profile, make sure Outlook is closed, and then locate to the client
computer folder 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server\Clients' (or '\\SBS2003Server\clients\Setup' if the folder is not
created on the client computer,) double click sbsdefault.prf, this will
automatically create the outlook profile with the correct settings (which
also include the FAX Transport) for the corresponding domain user.

Step 4: After you join the workstation to domain, the mapped printers,
paths to network shares you manually created can not be available now, you
have to manually modify them. There is no way to change them automatically.

More information:

Migrating from Small Business Server 2000 or Windows 2000 Server to Windows
Small Business Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fa187d1e-8218-4501-
9729-222bd8ebb64c&displaylang=en

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-
a82d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en

Hope the informaton helps.

If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Best regards,

Robert Li(MSFT)

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<What is the most efficient way to update the workstations to work with
<the new domain and server names?
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<printers, paths to network shares, Exchange mailbox etc. would still
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