Guest Cmor Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Our current IT policy is to name servers using lower case. It used to be UPPER CASE. Our SAP team wants their new servers to be re-named using UPPER CASE. The name wil be the same, only the case will change. Can this be done and are there any other ramifications of doing this? TIA, Seymour
Guest Phillip Windell Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: Change Server name CASE? "Cmor" <cmor1701d@gmail.com> wrote in message news:745b9b28-d472-442e-b3bf-eed7251b814f@25g2000prz.googlegroups.com... > Our current IT policy is to name servers using lower case. It used to > be UPPER CASE. Our SAP team wants their new servers to be re-named > using UPPER CASE. The name wil be the same, only the case will > change. > Can this be done and are there any other ramifications of doing this? Case is irrelevant. It is a meaninless thing to "want". I think NetBios Names (WINS) is always shown upper case,...DNS names are typically lower case,....Windows Machines Names can be mixed case. They should *really* want them lower cased in keeping with DNS tradition considering that Active Directory is completely DNS based. To make the change in case "hold" when you rename them: 1. Rename them to a totally different name, ignore the reboot prompt. 2. Rename them back 3. When you rename them back use the case you want. Now reboot. -- Phillip Windell http://www.wandtv.com The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. ----------------------------------------------------- Technet Library ISA2004 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc302436(TechNet.10).aspx ISA2006 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb898433(TechNet.10).aspx Understanding the ISA 2004 Access Rule Processing http://www.isaserver.org/articles/ISA2004_AccessRules.html Troubleshooting Client Authentication on Access Rules in ISA Server 2004 http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/8/918ed2d3-71d0-40ed-8e6d-fd6eeb6cfa07/ts_rules.doc Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server: Partners http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/partners/default.mspx Microsoft ISA Server Partners: Partner Hardware Solutions http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/edgesecurity/partners/hardwarepartners.mspx -----------------------------------------------------
Guest Cmor Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: Change Server name CASE? Host name case matters to SAP. Case matters in the Unix world too. We changed our policy on server host names to be lower case to match DNS. Then we changed from AD integrated to secondary with BIND 9.x primary. Thanks for the reply. On Aug 26, 2:31 pm, "Phillip Windell" <philwind...@hotmail.com> wrote: > "Cmor" <cmor17...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:745b9b28-d472-442e-b3bf-eed7251b814f@25g2000prz.googlegroups.com... > > > Our current IT policy is to name servers using lower case. It used to > > be UPPER CASE. Our SAP team wants their new servers to be re-named > > using UPPER CASE. The name wil be the same, only the case will > > change. > > Can this be done and are there any other ramifications of doing this? > > Case is irrelevant. It is a meaninless thing to "want". > I think NetBios Names (WINS) is always shown upper case,...DNS names are > typically lower case,....Windows Machines Names can be mixed case. > > They should *really* want them lower cased in keeping with DNS tradition > considering that Active Directory is completely DNS based. > > To make the change in case "hold" when you rename them: > > 1. Rename them to a totally different name, ignore the reboot prompt. > 2. Rename them back > 3. When you rename them back use the case you want. Now reboot. > > -- > Phillip Windellwww.wandtv.com > > The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, > or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. > ----------------------------------------------------- > Technet Library > ISA2004http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc302436(TechNet.10)..aspx > ISA2006http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb898433(TechNet.10)..aspx > > Understanding the ISA 2004 Access Rule Processinghttp://www.isaserver.org/articles/ISA2004_AccessRules.html > > Troubleshooting Client Authentication on Access Rules in ISA Server 2004http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/8/918ed2d3-71d0-40ed-8e6d-... > > Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server: Partnershttp://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/partners/default.mspx > > Microsoft ISA Server Partners: Partner Hardware Solutionshttp://www.microsoft.com/forefront/edgesecurity/partners/hardwarepart... > -----------------------------------------------------
Guest Phillip Windell Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: Change Server name CASE? "Cmor" <cmor1701d@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fd29e89f-df67-49c9-ba83-873cdb6bea8c@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > Host name case matters to SAP. Case matters in the Unix world too. > We changed our policy on server host names to be lower case to match > DNS. Then we changed from AD integrated to secondary with BIND 9.x > primary. Well, renaming them back and forth like I described should get the case the way you want it. -- Phillip Windell http://www.wandtv.com The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. -----------------------------------------------------
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