Re: What do I need to do if I want to rename the SBS 2003 computer

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can you copy them to an external drive and then back to the new box?
"Chris Swinney" <ChrisSwinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:51A98FD2-4076-4F7E-BEA1-3C9EFBDDFF3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Larry,

I was think this might be a simpler solution to just leave it, but it is
actually been given a duplicate name of an old SBS 2000 server from which we
want to copy settings and data accross from. This complicates things a little.

Chris


"Larry Struckmeyer" wrote:

> Hi Chris:
>
> Don't know what you know, so this may be old news.
>
> The machine name, and the domain name really have no effect on anything
> outside your LAN. Now if it is made up of common 4 letter impolite words,
> that could be an issue, but if it just says left.domain.lan when it should
> say right.domain.lan, no biggy.
>
> If it says left.domainname.com, that is the domain name, not the machine
> name that is wrong, but the same answer applies, unfortunately.
>
> The choice of pain is really yours, some pain now to start over, or pain
> forever watching the "wrong" name.
>
> Larry
>
> "Chris Swinney" <ChrisSwinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F2C9CAD9-E271-4D6A-946B-7DC3624F3617@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that renaming an SBS 2003 computer (Standard R2) is not straight
> > forward. This is a new Dell machine but was given the wrong name on
> > installation and it needs to be changed. I can change the name of the
> > machine
> > but then variious services stop working, such as Exchange, Sharepoint ect.
> > I
> > am in the midle of uniinstalling and reinstalling the exchnage component,
> > then applying SP2, but is there anything elese that needs looking at, and
> > is
> > these a better way of doing things?
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
>
>

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