Aww, come on Don, it made for a very interesting week or so for me... ;) Joe Heaton
________________________________ From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:26 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain rename-Hijacked Nope, that is bad juju... Nevermind that fact it's bad juju to put Exchange on a DC anywya... On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, you can. You cannot do a rename with an Exchange server on a DC. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:11 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain rename-Hijacked Excuse me? I think you'd better go check the docs again... I have done a couple of domain rename's with an Exchange Org in existence... Clustered Exchange servers too. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Durf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: More specifically, you cannot perform a Domain Rename operation on any domain that has an Exchange Organization within it, without removing the Exchange Org. Now, you *can* remove the Exchange Org without a total disaster, if you know what you're doing. A lot of the necessary steps have been documented in the Swing Kit, by Jeff Middleton (www.sbsmigration.com <http://www.sbsmigration.com/> ). Note that this is not in any way supported or recommended by Microsoft. -- Durf On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exchange Servers cannot be renamed. Period. So, there are no easy ways. Some are easier than others, but none are easy. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: wjh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:07 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain rename-Hijacked So, I have somewhat similar project coming up, and can see many ways to this the hard way, but not sure how to do it easy. I have one domain with two DCs...one of which is also an Exchange server. This domain (company.com)is used by two organizations that now want their own separate networks. One organization will keep the current server hardware. It was decided that the other group would be small enough to use SBS 2003. The tricky part is that the org moving to SBS is the one who controls the name for the existing domain and will use it on their network. So, do I demote one DC and then create a new forest and domain, then setup a trust and migrate everyone? Do I run the risk of totally screwing Exchange since it is on a DC? Bill Ryan Corcoran wrote: Hi. We are a college and we are changing out name thus the domain name will have to be changed. I am running AD on windows 2003 serve and exchange 2003 for email.. Is it best to setup a new domain and migrate users to that or try to rename the current one in place. Any suggestions would be helpful Thanks Ryan ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
