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Bryan said:
I search on microsoft.com and have found very little about renaming a
server. I have a server right now running 2000server and want to
rename a new 2003 server to the same name after taking the old server
out of service. Does anyone know where I can find some documentation
on how to accomplish this. I just want to make sure they will be
know problems. Any help you can give would be great!!
THANKS
You won't be able to directly rename it like that. You can probably use a
swing server where you promote another server, demote the first one, then
promote the new one with the new name, then demote the other one.
Another method is to simply promote the new 2003 server into the domain,
demote the old one, raise the functional level to 2003 for the forest and
domain, then simply rename it (which is a new feature to be able to rename a
domain or a server).
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