> I'm not sure what you mean. There's no 'old' domain to > decommission. There is only one domain, it just has two > distinct names (xxx_yyy and zzz.company.com). The only way > this domain will go away is if I built a new forest and > migrated everything over to it. At that point, the original > domain would be useless and I could retire it. > The reason I did an in-place upgrade in the first place was > to avoid that process - not that it's a bad thing, just that > it was not necessary .. I started with one NT domain with a > NetBIOS name, and ended with the same domain upgraded to AD > with two names. > Dave
Ah, that's exactly the way I am planning it, and for the same reason. What I meant was moving from the interim mode to the native AD mode. Once in native AD mode, do the clients still log in using xxx_yyy\username ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sharma, Shshank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:15 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscores > > > > > Users will see the 'old' name in the drop-down box when > they log in > >to the domain, and can continue to use it wherever they need to > >specify the domain (like xxx_yyy\username in the NET USE > command, etc.). > > When you use AD tools like ADU&C, you'll deal with the > 'new' DNS name. > > Dave > > And what happens when you decommission the old, NT domain > (the xxx_yyy). > You need to touch all the clients then ? > > Shshank > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
