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Is it an Exchange Organization?
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No, Exchange is hosted offsite.
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What internal services are you running?
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DNS, Active Directory, DHCP, DFS
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We are currently running our domain in a 2008 R2 enviroment. &nbsp;For whatever reason, the previous network admin named our domain, cyfairfcu.org, which is the same as our website. &nbsp;This is causing DNS problems in addition to other oddities. &nbsp;I'm wondering what the risk or advice would be to rename the domain from cyfairfcu.org to local.cyfair (or simular).<br />
What will renaming the domain effect? Permissions, user accounts?<br />
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Please advise, as I've never done this before.
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We are currently running our domain in a 2008 R2 enviroment.  For whatever reason, the previous network admin named our domain, cyfairfcu.org, which is the same as our website.  This is causing DNS problems in addition to other oddities.  I'm wondering what the risk or advice would be to rename the domain from cyfairfcu.org to local.cyfair (or simular).
What will renaming the domain effect? Permissions, user accounts?


Please advise, as I've never done this before.

Domain Rename

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

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