Renaming an Exchanger server is unsupported and it breaks everything. This plan seems a little overly complicated anyway.
You can rename the new box anything you need BEFORE you install Exchange. Since you're decommissioning the old box anyway, its name will go away. Or after you uninstall Exchange, you can rename it (assuming no problems with other software). Of course, if you're looking to use the same name for the new server as the old, you're out of luck. You can work around a lot of these issues with some creative DNS. Steve Hart Network Administrator 503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax ________________________________ From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 12:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Renaming (and changing the IP address) of an Exchange 2003 server I apologize if you have seen it. We're not getting any indication that it has gone out, although we've tried. As part of upgrading from Exchange 2003 to 2010 we are looking at renaming our old 2003 server box (new IP address, etc) but aren't sure of the ramifications or actions we would need to take 1) Within Exchange 2) Between Exchange and AD Here is a brief outline of what we are planning. 1. Shut down services on Exchange 2003 2. Rename/IP 2003 box 3. Turn on services for Exchange 2003 4. Rename/IP 2010 box (Exchange 2010 is not actually installed yet) 5. Install Exchange 2010 (which should recognize 2003, and set up the inter link between the two) 6. After mailboxes, etc are all moved over, and everything is running on 2010, decommission 2003. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated, Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA Windows Servers & Networking Prairie Bible Institute Box 4000 Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0 Canada Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476 Fax: 403-443-5540 Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu<mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu> www.prairie.edu<http://www.prairie.edu> --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
