Here is the information page for the 2003 domain rename...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx
I don’t think I would ever want to go through it. But, better now than when directory grows larger.
Brent
From: joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:06:06 -0400
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD domain changes
Yes, this is doable once you have your domain all on 2K3. If you have Exchange you need E2K3 w/ SP1.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Rinehart
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD domain changes
Joe,
Yeah I figured as much but I'm in native active directory mode currently. I thought there was tool you could use to change it in 2003 server so maybe upgrading to that first and then changing would work?
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD domain changes
If you are in mixed mode you can spin up an NT4 BDC and kill of the 2K DCs and then upgrade from NT4 to 2K and specify a new AD Domain Name. There is a KB article on that I believe. You will lose AD specific info though if you don't export it first so you can reimport later though you will keep all of your security principals.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Rinehart
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] AD domain changes
So I've been dreading this for awhile but I've got the time available and I've planned for it. I'd like to change my AD domain name. I'm looking for options. I realize that W2k by itself will not allow you to change it and you'd have to just uninstall and reinstall to change the domain. That is an option but I'd like to see if there is another alternative. The flip side is that my active directory network is very small with 2 DCs running w2k server, 1 DHCP server and that's it. The current system is working fine and the only thing that needs to change is the domain name itself. Would it make sense to move to 2003 server?
Ken-
