Guest pez Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 I understand that the domain functional level needs to be 2003. What if you have a root domain (root.com) and 2 child domains (test1.root.com and test2.root.com). All domains are 2000 native. If you wanted to rename DC's in root.com, can you just raise domain functional level for root.com? Or do you need to raise all the domain functional levels?
Guest Marcin Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Re: Renaming domain controllers? Since, as you pointed out, DC rename is a feature of Windows Server 2003 functional level, the target domain (i.e. root.com) needs to be operating in this manner (rather than entire forest). However, there are some caveats you need to consider depending on the number of domain controllers in your root.com and the roles that are hosted on the one you are planning to rename. For more info, refer to http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/aad1169a-f0d2-47d5-b0ea-989081ce62be1033.mspx?mfr=true hth Marcin
Guest Augusto Alvarez Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Re: Renaming domain controllers? Are you really considering on renaming the DC? That feature is available from 2003 but its definitely not recommendable, there are a bunch of things to consider and you probably found some issues in the middle. If you absolutely need to, try to promote a new DC with the new name you want to and then demote the previous DC. Cheers -- augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks http://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez "pez" <peter.zelonis@gmail.com> wrote in message news:845d5e5b-2590-435a-9cb8-a79b59c6870c@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... >I understand that the domain functional level needs to be 2003. What > if you have a root domain (root.com) and 2 child domains > (test1.root.com and test2.root.com). All domains are 2000 native. If > you wanted to rename DC's in root.com, can you just raise domain > functional level for root.com? Or do you need to raise all the domain > functional levels?
Guest pez Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Re: Renaming domain controllers? On Mar 16, 12:30 pm, "Augusto Alvarez" <augusto.alvare...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you really considering on renaming the DC? That feature is available > from 2003 but its definitely not recommendable, there are a bunch of things > to consider and you probably found some issues in the middle. > > If you absolutely need to, try to promote a new DC with the new name you > want to and then demote the previous DC. > > Cheers > > -- > augusto alvarez | it pro | southworkshttp://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez > > "pez" <peter.zelo...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:845d5e5b-2590-435a-9cb8-a79b59c6870c@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > > >I understand that the domain functional level needs to be 2003. What > > if you have a root domain (root.com) and 2 child domains > > (test1.root.com and test2.root.com). All domains are 2000 native. If > > you wanted to rename DC's in root.com, can you just raise domain > > functional level for root.com? Or do you need to raise all the domain > > functional levels? No, I'm studying for the 70-296 (sorry to be misleading). Thanks for the replies.
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