changing domain name, whats the effect??

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Guys,

My company is planning to change our domain name.

What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
servers.

My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
websites we be affected.

Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
one?

Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.


Thanks,
Tony
 
Guys,

My company is planning to change our domain name.

What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
servers.
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You cannot change a Win2000 AD domain (you posted in Win2000)
but you can certainly change any public DNS or other DNS name for
your email without affecting the internal AD domain.

You can under certain conditions (no legacy DCs etc) change the
name of a Win2003 AD Domain.

Doing so is mostly just a nuisance and a bit tedious.
My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
websites we be affected.
Click to expand...

If that is all then it can be done, but notice that you will need to
support the OLD DNS/email names for some reasonable period
of time if you wish to maintain communication with those who
already know your email names or who have bookmarked your
websites.
Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
one?
Click to expand...

Yes, in fact the internal, i.e., AD domain, name is the hard one to change.
Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.
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Thanks guys.

Tony


Herb said:
Guys,

My company is planning to change our domain name.

What has to be done? We have about 5 Exchange & 2 DNS consisting of
2003 Servers. Also we have about 100 other servers mostly as member
servers.
Click to expand...

You cannot change a Win2000 AD domain (you posted in Win2000)
but you can certainly change any public DNS or other DNS name for
your email without affecting the internal AD domain.

You can under certain conditions (no legacy DCs etc) change the
name of a Win2003 AD Domain.

Doing so is mostly just a nuisance and a bit tedious.
My initital thought when the CEO brought this up is our email and
websites we be affected.
Click to expand...

If that is all then it can be done, but notice that you will need to
support the OLD DNS/email names for some reasonable period
of time if you wish to maintain communication with those who
already know your email names or who have bookmarked your
websites.
Can we still keep our internal domain name without changing to the new
one?
Click to expand...

Yes, in fact the internal, i.e., AD domain, name is the hard one to change.
Any ideas as I am trying to outline the affects.
Click to expand...



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Thanks,
Tony
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