changing a domain name

Our local domain is a top level domain (company.com). We don't actually own company.com on the web so our websites are mycompany.com. This has proved to be problematic for a variety of reasons. The latest find has been an exchange issue. That said I am thinking of proposing we change the domain name from company.com to either company.local, mycompany.local. I am leaning on doing the mycompany.local. Has anyone ever done this? We have about 75 computers and 20 servers. We have mostly XP clients. Most of our servers are either 2000 or 2003 with 1 2008 box. We are planning to upgrade our 2000 boxes soon. Our DCs are Windows 2003.

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RobertKaucher

knwminus wrote: »

Yes! This^^^^

It still would not matter. You could generate from ISS with the same basic result.

Bl8ckr0uter

RobertKaucher wrote: »

It still would not matter. You could generate from ISS with the same basic result.

I wasn't able to generate that from IIS. When I tried it just used the CN of the server. I just tried again.

subl1m1nal

I didn't think internal domain name mattered. Awesome! Hope it works well for you.

Mojo_666

At least you don't have to tackle a domain rename.

Bl8ckr0uter

Mojo_666 wrote: »

At least you don't have to tackle a domain rename.

Hell yea! My faith has been restored. I was feeling pretty shitty earlier lol.

On another note, I think I need to pick up a powershell book.

ssampier

Congratulations on fixing your certificate problem.

Before you know it, you'll be MS certified - one of us, one of us

RobertKaucher

knwminus wrote: »

I wasn't able to generate that from IIS. When I tried it just used the CN of the server. I just tried again.

That was your error. CN should be set to the domain you want the clients to be able to access as a URL. See the quote in my post above.

Bl8ckr0uter

ssampier wrote: »

Congratulations on fixing your certificate problem.

Before you know it, you'll be MS certified - one of us, one of us

I'm totally thinking about it now, for real.

RobertKaucher wrote: »

That was your error. CN should be set to the domain you want the clients to be able to access as a URL. See the quote in my post above.

I see. What I still don't get is how to generate this from the GUI but hey, I don't care about that anymore lol.

dynamik

knwminus wrote: »

On another note, I think I need to pick up a powershell book.

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Bl8ckr0uter

dynamik wrote: »

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Win!

See you guys later. I'll check back in and let you all know how it ended up.

Devilsbane

knwminus wrote: »

I'm totally thinking about it now, for real.

I am MS certified, and you are still tinkering with things that I have barely touched.

Bl8ckr0uter

Devilsbane wrote: »

I am MS certified, and you are still tinkering with things that I have barely touched.

I think MS stuff is cool again. My main hate for Windows has come from cleaning off **** from peoples machine. Not even the acceptable **** either. Weird off the wall type stuff. This has happen to me more than once and at more than one job. People searching the web for crazy ****, get something and then call me and get mad when I say it is going to take more than 5 minutes to clean. Sigh....

At any rate this has been a fun little experience. Exchange is almost mystical in its complexity. I might be able to squeeze out an MCS-something or a MCITP-whatever lol. But that will be after I get the Security+. For you Devils, for you lol.

Devilsbane

knwminus wrote: »

But that will be after I get the Security+. For you Devils, for you lol.

I'm not feeling too threatened. By my count the security+ won't be done until 2012 so that really isn't much competition.

Bl8ckr0uter

Devilsbane wrote: »

I'm not feeling too threatened. By my count the security+ won't be done until 2012 so that really isn't much competition.

You cut me deep man.

subl1m1nal

Devilsbane wrote: »

I am MS certified, and you are still tinkering with things that I have barely touched.

I haven't set this up with a signed cert before. I have dealt a little bit with setting up OWA and activesync with a self signed cert. It just adds a couple more steps when setting up the phones.

It's one of those things you don't do a lot. Once you have it set up, you're done. Not much to maintain on it.

dynamik

knwminus wrote: »

You cut me deep man.

And this, kids, is the reason why you don't announce preparation for a certification that isn't a massive endeavor, like the CCIE

Bl8ckr0uter

dynamik wrote: »

And this, kids, is the reason why you don't announce preparation for a certification that isn't a massive endeavor, like the CCIE

Noted lol.

earweed

Devilsbane wrote: »

I'm not feeling too threatened. By my count the security+ won't be done until 2012 so that really isn't much competition.

+1 on this..lol

Mojo_666

subl1m1nal wrote: »

I haven't set this up with a signed cert before. I have dealt a little bit with setting up OWA and activesync with a self signed cert. It just adds a couple more steps when setting up the phones.

It's one of those things you don't do a lot. Once you have it set up, you're done. Not much to maintain on it.

Spot on with this, I have done this 4 times, all within the same week approx. 3 years ago. The thing is though even though you do not touch it very often once you have you do get the knowledge,the detail gets lost over time but you do know what is supposed to happen and how things are supposed to work and what your options are, the detail always needs a good Google unless you do it frequently.

Bl8ckr0uter

And the lord stretched out his hand and said "I shall create OWA and all of my people shall access mail on their droid 2" and it came to be and he saw that it was good.

FTFW! It is so awesome!

Bl8ckr0uter

I just have to post how much win this is. Now the down side is I will need someone to enforce encryption on the devices but for now I am happy as a um happy person being happy lol.

Oh I am even happier. It enforced the activesync policy I made.

Devilsbane

knwminus wrote: »

And the lord stretched out his hand and said "I shall create OWA and all of my people shall access mail on their droid 2" and it came to be and he saw that it was good.

FTFW! It is so awesome!

All hail King Knwmius. He has givith us our interwebs and emails.

subl1m1nal

Congrats. It's a little bit of work to set up, but now you'll be able to setup Windows Mobile, Android, and iPhones with ease. Blackberry is another story. LOL. Wait, didn't you mention you already had BES rockin?

Maybe you should go after those M$ certs Mr. Exchange admin.

earweed

subl1m1nal wrote: »

Congrats. It's a little bit of work to set up, but now you'll be able to setup Windows Mobile, Android, and iPhones with ease. Blackberry is another story. LOL. Wait, didn't you mention you already had BES rockin?

Maybe you should go after those M$ certs Mr. Exchange admin.

Agreed, just skip the server certs and go straight for exchange..lol

Glad to hear you got it going.

Bl8ckr0uter

subl1m1nal wrote: »

Congrats. It's a little bit of work to set up, but now you'll be able to setup Windows Mobile, Android, and iPhones with ease. Blackberry is another story. LOL. Wait, didn't you mention you already had BES rockin?

Maybe you should go after those M$ certs Mr. Exchange admin.

Bes is rolling like a champ. I need to upgrade the exchange tools on it later but other than that it is rocking. I already have the DROID phones set up. I need to figure out how to make this hipaa certified and then I am in like flin. Now my CEO will be happy (my bosses boss).

earweed wrote: »

Agreed, just skip the server certs and go straight for exchange..lol

Glad to hear you got it going.

Nah. If I was going to do it, I would do some server certs first lol. I really don't know. I figure I just need to finish out what I said I am going to do this year and then decided on what's next. I am trying to figure out what I want to specialize in as far as my career.