Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Guest Daniel
Posted

Is it possible to change the domain name in DC and without having to

reinstall dns and active directory ?

 

Daniel

  • Replies 3
  • Created
  • Last Reply
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
Posted

Re: Change domain name

 

Daniel <danieltbt04@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to change the domain name in DC and without having to

> reinstall dns and active directory ?

>

> Daniel

 

Yes, presuming W2003:

 

Windows 2003 Domain Rename information

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/domainrename/default.asp

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;819145

 

Windows 2003 Domain Rename Tools

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

 

......if you run Exchange, this can be trickier.

 

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html

 

Earlier versions? Only with a complete reinstall.

Posted

Re: Change domain name

 

We've got Win2K3 SBS SP2 and Exchange 2003 SP2 with a single server...

So,

1) should we put our Exchange 2003 SP2 on a new server and rename then

2) rename with Exchange 2003 SP2 on our same server

3) something else?

Our domain was setup with .net rather than .local, so our rename is on the

..net to .local.

What if we rename the domain from abc.net to xyz.local? Single step rename?

What are the implications if we mess things up? Or is it possible to mess

things up?

TIA

 

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> Daniel <danieltbt04@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Is it possible to change the domain name in DC and without having to

> > reinstall dns and active directory ?

> >

> > Daniel

>

> Yes, presuming W2003:

>

> Windows 2003 Domain Rename information

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/domainrename/default.asp

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;819145

>

> Windows 2003 Domain Rename Tools

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

>

> ......if you run Exchange, this can be trickier.

>

> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html

>

> Earlier versions? Only with a complete reinstall.

>

>

>

Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
Posted

Re: Change domain name

 

Tom <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> We've got Win2K3 SBS SP2 and Exchange 2003 SP2 with a single server...

 

With SBS? Then you can't do it at all, I'm afraid, outside of a complete

flatten/reinstall. Note that SBS does a lot of things differently and

you're always best off asking SBS2003 questions in m.p.windows.server.sbs.

 

> So,

> 1) should we put our Exchange 2003 SP2 on a new server and rename then

> 2) rename with Exchange 2003 SP2 on our same server

> 3) something else?

> Our domain was setup with .net rather than .local, so our rename is

> on the .net to .local.

 

Why do you need to do this? It's true, using the same DNS namespace

internally as externally can cause a few problems, but most of the time you

can deal with it -if your users can't access the publicly hosted

http://www.mydomain.com because your AD-integrated DNS thinks itself authoritative

for mydomain.com, just create a host called www in your forward lookup zone

(in your SBS DNS console) and put in the appropriate public IP. Etc.

>

> What if we rename the domain from abc.net to xyz.local? Single step

> rename? What are the implications if we mess things up? Or is it

> possible to mess things up?

 

Yes - it's possible to hose your entire AD & Exchange. :)

 

 

> TIA

>

> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

>

>> Daniel <danieltbt04@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> Is it possible to change the domain name in DC and without having to

>>> reinstall dns and active directory ?

>>>

>>> Daniel

>>

>> Yes, presuming W2003:

>>

>> Windows 2003 Domain Rename information

>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/domainrename/default.asp

>>

>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;819145

>>

>> Windows 2003 Domain Rename Tools

>>

>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

>>

>> ......if you run Exchange, this can be trickier.

>>

>> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html

>>

>> Earlier versions? Only with a complete reinstall.


×
×
  • Create New...