If by disconnect you mean disjoin from old domain and join to new domain, the PC's shouldn't care. You're creating new user accounts and fresh shares/permissions so those should be OK. Mail-wise you're just changing MX pointers.
Thinking about it, you might have to move the local profiles on the PC's which is tedious but generally painless unless you come across "file/path too long" issues. My guess is when you join the new domain and log in under the new domain it will create a new local profile - I don't know if the local profiles are name-driven or ID-key(SID) driven. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name? I have a client that is going to be moving from a 2003 domain with VERY old hardware to Small Business Server 2008 new hardware. Here is my question. Can you think of any problems if we keep the same internal domain name? If I disconnect the pc's from the old domain ABC.LOCAL and connect them to the new SBS domain ABC.LOCAL could that cause any problems? In the past I have always changed the internal domain/DNS names when doing migrations like this. The client would like to keep the same name so that's why I'm asking. With out knowing the repercussions I would think that it could potentially cause a ton of issues. Thanks Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
