NT domain migration with a "." in the name?!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Troy Bruder
  • Start date Start date
T

Troy Bruder

Hello,

We have a customer that would like to upgrade their NT 4.0 domain to
Win2k3... Unfortunately, they named their NT domain with a ".COM" in the
name... Any recommendations for the upgrade?? It's a small company with
roughly 6 servers, and 50 user accounts.

Thanks,
Troy
 
Troy,

There is no problem with having 'theirdomain.com' vs. having
'theirdomain.local' - or whatever extension you like.

About the only thing that pops to mind is that you will need to add an A
record in the FLZ named 'www' and give it the Public IP Address of their web
site ( otherwise they will not be able to get to
http://www.theirdomain.com ).

HTH,

Cary


PS. If this is a major concern to you and your company then you can
consider renaming the domain from 'theirdomain.com' to 'theirdomain.local'
by using the rendom utility that is available in WIN2003.
 
Cary,

The NT domain is called "JOE.COM"... So when they upgrade to Win2k3, won't
that equate to "JOE.COM.COM"?

Troy
 
Don't think so.

Cary

Troy Bruder said:
Cary,

The NT domain is called "JOE.COM"... So when they upgrade to Win2k3, won't
that equate to "JOE.COM.COM"?

Troy
Click to expand...
 
We have a customer that would like to upgrade their NT 4.0 domain to
Win2k3... Unfortunately, they named their NT domain with a ".COM" in the
name... Any recommendations for the upgrade?? It's a small company with
roughly 6 servers, and 50 user accounts.
Click to expand...
What Cary says. I'd be inclined to rename the NT Domain before you
upgrade though, to avoid possible problems. This might help:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/4784/4784.html

Cheers,

Cliff

{MVP - Directory Services}
 
Back
Top