Actually not true, this changed in Exchange SP1...now that said..... we
STILL do not recommend renaming in SBSland because of Sharepoint. That
is what gets totally screwed these days with a domain rename on our
boxes. [yes a MVP tried it, Exchange made the trip just fine, Sharepoint
did not]
Domain Rename – Rename a Windows 2003 Forest with Exchange 2003 installed:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html
Stupid question alert though....why the need for the rename in the first
place? Now granted, this is our funky space down here but...the name of
the domain is totally meaningless and you should name your servers to
not need renaming is our philosophy in SBSland.
Bottom line ...yes... on a normal server, no on SBS.
I have seen several KBs that point to ... if I remember right.... public
folder wackoness after a domain rename that needed some hotfixes.
Michael B. Smith wrote:
It is not supported to change the name of a server on which Exchange is
installed.
Thus you can't change the name of a DC while Exchange is installed upon
it. Exchange will break.
For more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842116
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Sorenson
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:38 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Rename domain - DC with Exchange installed
Hi everyone,
We have a Windows 2003 SP1 server with Exchange 2003 installed. I need
to change the domain name. Doing some reading up on the subject, I'm
getting conflicting information on whether this is even possible in our
case. For the record, this is our DC (and the only DC in the domain) and
it has Exchange installed on it.
I've read the documentation that MS has available on the two tools for
domain renaming and am not clear on whether I need to first uninstall
Exchange to do this.
Has anyone here done this successfully without uninstalling Exchange
first?
TIA for any pointers!
Steve
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