I'm serious.

Here is a question for you.  As always, if you could offer any info, I would
be very grateful.  We're a small shop with only 2 Admins managing 200 users
in 4 states and we don't have the firepower you guys do.

Let's say you don't like your AD domain name and you want to change it.  You
have 4 DCs, 3 each W2K SP3 and 1 each NT4 SP6a, so you're still in mixed
mode.  You could move the NT DC to 2K, then move everyone to W2K3, then
raise the Forest functionality level and then play Russian Roulette with
Rendom.  That's one option.  Or could it be as simple as DCPromoing all 3
W2K3 servers down to Standalone servers, allowing the NT4 DC which still
controls the pre-W2K subdomain name to take full control of the domain
again, and then DCPromoing one of the 3 W2K DCs back up to W2K as the FSMO
and renaming the domain to what you want?  I would love to believe I could
do it and get away with it.

Thank you people.

PS:  I don't envy you Joe.  I hope you're being paid well!

RH

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Rocky Habeeb
Microsoft Systems Administrator
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James W. Sewall Company
Old Town, Maine
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207.827.4456
habr @ jws.com
www.jws.com
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