Thanks. One good thing is that the MX records won't need to be changed since it points to our firewall and not directly to an Exchange server.
But I think you are right, I will leave it up for a day just so I don't have to deal with all the users calling about not being able to connect. Thanks again, Wilson -----Original Message----- From: kanee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: HELP, can I change the name of the exchange server? Right now renaming a e2k server is hard. Since it uses AD renaming the netbios name is not a good idea unless you are very familiar with ADSI edit utility. IT seems simple enough to change the netbios name but I am not sure that all instances of that name will get changed in the AD structure, its just like renaming a domain, right now you can rename a child domain but you have ti do a lot of stuff thru adsi edit to make it work because not all instances of the domain name get changed in the AD structure, not to mention the changes in the registry. That's why they have made it easier to rename the child domains in .NET. But I moved a exchange server from ny to ma, changed ips put it into a completely different ip scheme and it worked like a charm, given that changing an IP is much easier than renaming, but I think you should be ok to rename as long as you make sure the new name has an account in the domain, all your wins records are updated and your dns records are updated. But if you are so concerned about the bug on the old server, once you move all the mailboxes to the new server, why don't you just remove the old server from the site, that way the old server is totally out of the picture. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR MX RECORDS ARE POINTED TO THE RIGHT SERVER, ALSO IF YOU DO THIS AND REMOVE THE OLD SERVER OUT OF THE SITE THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE TO MANUALLY EDIT ALL THE OUTLOOK PROFILES. SO I SUGGEST MOVING ALL MAILBOXES OVER TO NEW SERVER, MAKE THE MX RECORD POINT TO NEW SERVER THEN MAKE SURE YOU HAVE MAIL FLOW FOR A DAY, IN ONE DAY MAKE SURE ALL YOUR CLIENTS CONNECT TO EXCHANGE SERVER, THIS WAY ALL THEIR OUTLOOKS ARE UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE NEW SERVER NAME AND THEN REMOVE THE OLD SERVER OUT OF THE SITE. HOPE THIS HELPS...GOOD LUCK :-) -----Original Message----- From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:39 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: HELP, can I change the name of the exchange server? Importance: High Thanks Kanee, My reasoning for removing the original server right away was because of the damn bug. I am still a little concerned that the mailflow might still stop with this bugged server still active in the site. I could change the DNS entry and make it point the old name to the new server... One dumb thing is, we have developers that run scripts on databases that send email. The server name is hard coded into the scripts so they all must be changed also. Christ, 14 gigs of public folders need to be rehomed and 40+ gigs of user mail needs to be moved in less then 2 days... And I was told I had good karma :P I've read Ed's move server method, technet and support sites.. but nowhere does it say I can rename a exchange 2000 server.. did find one on Ex5.5 though. (Wish I knew that last year :) Thanks again.. Wilson -----Original Message----- From: kanee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: HELP, can I change the name of the exchange server? Varghese, For right now you can leave the first server up and running, once you move the mailboxes over to the new server. You don't have to change the server name in the clients outlook configuaration. After moving the mailboxes over to the new server just connect a clients outlook without making any changes, the mta from your old server will automatically redirect your clients to the new server as long as both the old server and the new server are in the same site. thx -----Original Message----- From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: HELP, can I change the name of the exchange server? Importance: High Looks like the bug with SP3 not picking up email is going to the debugging group and the only thing I can do is rebuild my exchange environment. What I want to do is, create a new server and join it to the current site. (MS has confirmed we can add an SP2 machine to an SP3 site) then move the mailboxes over. (40 gigs of it will take all weekend at least) But once it's done, I want to rename the new server with the old exchange servers name so the outlook clients can still connect. Is this possible? Anyone changed a server name before and if so, what issued have you come across? Please any info can be helpful. This is kind of an emergency.. 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