RE: domain name change
- From: "Linda Wilson" <lwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:32:45 -0800
We had to do this at a previous company and it can be a bit nasty. A tool that
helped us a lot, called U-Promote, by UTOOLS allows you to demote PDC and BDC's
to member servers, so you can change the domain name without reinstalling the
O/S... member servers are easy to change the domain name on. It was a wise
investment.
I am assuming that the O/S is NT.
We promoted a member server to PDC, and demoted the PDC to a member server so
it's domain name could change and be brought up again. Since it was the only
server on the domain, it became the PDC. We then repeated the steps with the
BDC. The member servers came over easily.
Exchange Server cannot be demoted and there are many places to make changes --
there are Q articles on this. However in retrospect it would have been better
and saved us a lot of time if we had just exported all the users mailboxes to
pst's, reinstalled the Exchange on the new domain and imported the pst files
into the new email boxes.
Create a check list of your steps so you can back track... it was very helpful
when I did it.
Then you have the workstation domain properties to change. Win 2k is easy, but
Win 98 machines are more difficult... we had to remove all Win 98 machine names
from the server and add to the domain
http://www.algintech.com/UTools/UPromote.asp
Good Luck !!
Linda Wilson
Information Technology Specialist
National Bank of the Redwoods - www.nbronline.com
2227 Capricorn Way, Suite 100
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
lwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx
707-522-5230 voice
707-522-5271 fax
707-217-8359 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: Anantha Kumar S [mailto:Anantha.Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:07 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] domain name change
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Hi all
Our company is planning to change its name. We will be changing our domain
name also. I have a exchange 5.5 with 60 users.
1 Should i reinstall a new exchange server with newcompany name or can i use
existing old server and rename it
2 How to move users from old to new. that is users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx to
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
3 Is there any thing that i have to do at ISP level.
Can any one help me with this, any procudure or any write up is available on
the net, would be of great help to me
thanks in advance.
anantha
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