Guys,

My company is planning to change our domain name.

What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
servers.

My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
websites we be affected.

Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
one?

Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.


Thanks,
Tony

Hello,

It is possible to change domain names in a W2K3 domain.
You will find all the information required at the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/dow...ainrename.mspx

I have used this tool may times with no problems but I was not worried
about email nor websites

Harj
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Guys,
>
> My company is planning to change our domain name.
>
> What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
> 2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
> servers.

You cannot change a Win2000 AD domain (you posted in Win2000)
but you can certainly change any public DNS or other DNS name for
your email without affecting the internal AD domain.

You can under certain conditions (no legacy DCs etc) change the
name of a Win2003 AD Domain.

Doing so is mostly just a nuisance and a bit tedious.

> My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
> websites we be affected.

If that is all then it can be done, but notice that you will need to
support the OLD DNS/email names for some reasonable period
of time if you wish to maintain communication with those who
already know your email names or who have bookmarked your
websites.

> Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
> one?

Yes, in fact the internal, i.e., AD domain, name is the hard one to change.

> Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.



--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]


> Thanks,
> Tony
>

Thanks guys.

Tony


Herb Martin wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Guys,
> >
> > My company is planning to change our domain name.
> >
> > What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
> > 2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
> > servers.
>
> You cannot change a Win2000 AD domain (you posted in Win2000)
> but you can certainly change any public DNS or other DNS name for
> your email without affecting the internal AD domain.
>
> You can under certain conditions (no legacy DCs etc) change the
> name of a Win2003 AD Domain.
>
> Doing so is mostly just a nuisance and a bit tedious.
>
> > My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
> > websites we be affected.
>
> If that is all then it can be done, but notice that you will need to
> support the OLD DNS/email names for some reasonable period
> of time if you wish to maintain communication with those who
> already know your email names or who have bookmarked your
> websites.
>
> > Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
> > one?
>
> Yes, in fact the internal, i.e., AD domain, name is the hard one to change.
>
> > Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.
>
>
>
> --
> Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
> Accelerated MCSE
> http://www.LearnQuick.Com
> [phone number on web site]
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
> >