Change Domain Name

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What is the procedure for changing a single Windows 2000 AD Server's
Domain Name and ensuring the workstations can still login?

Thank you.
 
If you uninstalled AD (as in removed AD totaly from all DC's and begun from
scratch) you could create a new forest with a domain name of your choice,
but also you would loose everything from the original forest (unless you
migrated it to a new forest using ADMT)
 
As posted earlier, it's a single-server network.

Andrew said:
If you uninstalled AD (as in removed AD totaly from all DC's and begun from
scratch) you could create a new forest with a domain name of your choice,
but also you would loose everything from the original forest (unless you
migrated it to a new forest using ADMT)
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in w2k ad it is not possible to rename the domain name.

there are 2 possibilities though!
(1) demote the DC, promote the DC using a new domain name. everything
(users, groups, computers, permissions, access to resources) is lost

(2) create a new parallel forest/domain with the new name and migrate
everything (users, groups, computers, permissions, access to resources) from
the old domain to the new domain. For this to work both the DNS domain name
and the NetBIOS domain name must be different between old and new!

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Right. To reiterate unless you upgrade to 2003 (why can't you?), you either
a) scrap the current AD and everything in it or b) stand up a new forest
with the new name and ADMT everything over (not terribly difficult
actually).

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP

www.briandesmond.com
 
If they move from W2k, they're insistent on going with NetWare instead.
Windows is an inherited server and they're not happy with it at all.
This is just one more reason for them to change (according to them).
 
Since I'm screwed here, is there any way to export settings for
documentation purposes so that I can more easily re-create them when I
re-install AD?

Thanks!
 
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