rookieboy Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Hi,Want to change domain name on 2003 DC, egg. from xxdomain.com to xxdomain.localThe server is also running IISWhat are the consequences ? Is it tricky, the DC is managing about 10 clientsNeed short answer, anyone ???ThnkzzzDonald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 There is real danger if you are running Exchange, otherwise a domain rename is relatively painless.http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads...mainrename.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookieboy Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 Thanks cluberti,Your answer was very helpfull, no there is no Exchange server runningI asume I have tell the client pc's to disjoin (the old) and join the new domain ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_uk Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 When you say "tell clients to disjoin.. etc" what do you mean?Is there a quicker way of doing it than having to ground them all manually?If so please explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 No, you should not. A reboot should suffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_uk Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Well, when I do that I get weird Errors in Event log and also I find accessing domain resources can be very patchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Well, that's always a possibility. If you make a change to the domain that also changes the netbios domain name, this can happen (and thus removing/re-adding machines is a very good thing to do). However, if the netbios domain name doesn't change, you may simply be able to push out the new dns domain name and suffix via a GPO and things should get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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