Just set up active directory

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Joe B

Actually, my colleague set up active directory last week on a Win2k server
machine. Is there any way to rename what he called the domain? or are we
stuck?
 
Danny,

does the fact that its "active directory" make any difference as to whether
I can rename or not? when we installed AD, it required DNS, so we called it
braytonlaw.com ... I'd like to rename it to something like
"ad.braytonlaw.com"
 
Active Directory is what is installed to change a member/standalone server
into a Domain Controller. You can not have a Win 2k domain without Active
Directory.
To answer your question, yes AD does make a difference in that without AD,
you can not have a domain, and you would not need to change the domain name
(because you don't have a domain), if you did not have AD installed.

You just have to make sure your AD domain is in mixed mode.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Thanks Danny. I know what you mean now. Yes we are in Mixed mode. and I
read the support article...
by the sounds of it, youre not "renaming" anything, instead, youre totally
rebuilding your 2000 domain. It says to pull the 2000 DC off of the network
and upgrade an existing Nt4.0 machine to Win2000 and then run the active
directory installation. What happens to all rights, etc that were in
place?? Rebuild from scratch?
 
The only way to name/rename a Win 2k domain is during dcpromo. You end up
taking your Win 2k domain back to NT 4.0 and start the upgrade all over.

You will add a NT 4.0 BDC to your Win 2k domain, replicate to get all domain
info to the NT 4.0 BDC (this will keep all user/domain info). Run dcpromo on
all Win 2k DCs, promote the NT 4.0 BDC to PDC, then upgrade to Win 2k.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Why not simply create the child domain as "ad.braytonlaw.com" then you can
use that as your domain name. Migrate all acccount info to the child domain.
 
then braytonlaw.com zone still exists right? braytonlaw.com is hosted by an
ISP. Like right now, my users cannot access www.braytonlaw.com since that
is the name of the internal domain now...
 
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