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DNS forward zones after domain rename..

Hi,

I have just renamed my domain from 'mydomain' to 'mydomain.local'. (just one single domain in a single forest, from single label to a dotted domain name). All went well with no error messages.

When I open the DNSMC I see the following DNS forward zones:

_msdcs.mydomain
mydomain
mydomain.local

Shouldn't I expect to see a zone called _msdcs.mydomain.local too?

Please comment

best regards

Geir

Chris Dent

Hi Geir,

If it's there correctly you would expect to see it under mydomain.local.

You used the DomainRename tool to do this?

Chris

geir056

ASKER

You're right I have a copy there, here is my current FLZ 'tree':
_msdcs.mydomain
dc
domains
tcp
udp
mydomain
_msdcs
_sites
_tcp
_udp
mydomain.local
_msdcs
_sites
_tcp
_udp
DomainDNSZones
ForestDNSZones
TAPI3Directory

As you see I have _msds subfolders both under mydomain and mydomain.local. But the one I wondered about was the 'root' _msdcs.mydomain folder. I have similar _msdcs.<domainname> 'root' folders at other domain controllers too, so I just wondered if there should be a similar _msdcs.mydomain.local 'root' folder (as it is for the old domain name) after the rename.

And yes, I used rendom.exe and gpfixup.exe (with no error messages).

regards

Geir

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geir056

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> f you prefer to have it that way ...

It's no big deal for me, I just saw that it exists on newly installed w2003 DCs and I wondered if I needed to take some action since it doesn't exist for my new domain.

Omitting this has no side effects?

Can I safely delete all DNS zones for the old domain, or will this be done by the final rendom.exe /clear (which I suppose I shouldn't do before *every* workstation has rebooted twice and logged on to the new domain)...

regards

Tor