Renaming will blow up your Exchange, badly. Reading between the lines you want to reuse the 2003 name on the new server....is that a correct assumption? It isn't worth it....it will haunt you for some time. Use a new name....now swapping the IP's so you have less work to do on the firewall...that is just fine.
From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 3:40 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
