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If you change your domain name, you'll need to update your clients to connect to the new domain. &nbsp;I find some corporations using the .local so that there's never any chance of conflict since .local will probably never be a public TLD.<br />
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For example, if you were ABC Farming, your domain would be &quot;abcfarming.local&quot;.<br />
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If you change your domain name, you'll need to update your clients to connect to the new domain.  I find some corporations using the .local so that there's never any chance of conflict since .local will probably never be a public TLD.

For example, if you were ABC Farming, your domain would be "abcfarming.local".




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Being quite the novice, I inadvertently setup my windows 2003 domain name with the same name as our intranet URL - both are myURL.com... &nbsp;The intranet is used to access a sharepoint site on the server.<br />
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Recently, I began adding office computers as domain clients and now get a conflict (I believe) when trying to access the intranet from these clients. &nbsp;<br />
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I am primarily running sharepoint (MOSS 2007) and a few simple IIS sites on the server - very basic use of the server. &nbsp;This is a single server - not a farm.<br />
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For various reasons, changing the intranet URL would not be easy, so I'm thinking I need to change the domain server name to fix this conflict. &nbsp;Can you confirm or let me know other options? &nbsp;If I have to change the domain name, can you point out gotchas and/or point me to some straightforward documentation?<br />

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Being quite the novice, I inadvertently setup my windows 2003 domain name with the same name as our intranet URL - both are myURL.com...  The intranet is used to access a sharepoint site on the server.

Recently, I began adding office computers as domain clients and now get a conflict (I believe) when trying to access the intranet from these clients.  

I am primarily running sharepoint (MOSS 2007) and a few simple IIS sites on the server - very basic use of the server.  This is a single server - not a farm.

For various reasons, changing the intranet URL would not be easy, so I'm thinking I need to change the domain server name to fix this conflict.  Can you confirm or let me know other options?  If I have to change the domain name, can you point out gotchas and/or point me to some straightforward documentation?


My domain name and intranet URL conflict when connecting through domain client

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.