Windows 2003 Rename DNS Problem

[Guest]

I have 5 native 2003 DC's at remote sites. All are working fine. I want to rename the domain from xzy.company.com to abc.company.com. I read the Domain-Rename-Intro, and followed steps 1 thru 7 on the Doman-Rename-Procedure from Microsoft website. I execute rendom /prepare from a member 2003 server, and get an error that it cannot communicate with the new domain name or a SPD error. I created the new Alias DNS Zone as I thought they should be- dynamic- secure, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something. Can someone precisely give me instructions on how to add the new domain name DNS alias Zone based on the simple domain rename from xyz.company.com to abc.company.com.
Thank you in advance for the help.

John

 

[Antonio Lam]

Oh, are you renaming the domain while sitting at a DC? Please make
sure that you have located a memer server in the domain that you're
going to rename, and you are running Rendom from there. You can't
rename a domain while sitting at a DC

In addition, Rendom can't make the DCs change their doman suffixes
automatically, as it did with the member servers and workstations. So
you have to do it by hand - go to each DC and change its DNS suffix
from the old domain to the new one.

Have you also run the gpfixup to adjust the group policies?

Antonio

I have 5 native 2003 DC's at remote sites. All are working fine. I

want to rename the domain from xzy.company.com to abc.company.com. I
read the Domain-Rename-Intro, and followed steps 1 thru 7 on the
Doman-Rename-Procedure from Microsoft website. I execute rendom
/prepare from a member 2003 server, and get an error that it cannot
communicate with the new domain name or a SPD error. I created the new
Alias DNS Zone as I thought they should be- dynamic- secure, but I'm
not sure if I'm missing something. Can someone precisely give me
instructions on how to add the new domain name DNS alias Zone based on
the simple domain rename from xyz.company.com to abc.company.com.