Yes you could. However, clients/servers that are in that site have the old site name in the registry as the site (dynamic setting) they are in. If you rename the site in AD (it will also be renamed in DNS automatically by the DCs) and the clients/servers query DNS to get a DC for the site with the old name, they will not succeed and ask for a DC in the domain. And that can be any DC in the domain that has registered domain wide DC locator records. At that same moment they will be redirected again to a DC in the site they are in, but with the new name. This happens when the client authenticates or when the ClosestSiteCacheTimeout expires (15 min.) I would compare a site rename with a client/server switching from one site to another. The latter is explained in an article written by Gil "Designing an Authentication Topology" (figure 2 and 3) (www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/37935/37935.html) If the site is hardcoded in the registry of clients/servers or GPOs (site coverage) you need to change that manually Cheers, Jorge
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