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Thanks for the advise just what I was looking for.
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Thanks for the advise just what I was looking for.

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I'm running exchange 2003 sp2 with 2 mail stores and a front end OWA server. <br />
We will be changing our company name to from abc.com to def.com. I know<br />
I can easily change the recipient policy on exchange and replicate a new primary <br />
smpt address company wide and create a new MX record. Should be easy enough.<br />
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My question &nbsp;is what are the benefits of renaming or possibly migrating our AD to a new controller? <br />
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Do I need to rename active directory? I cant imagine our employees noticing anything different besides they now have new email addresses.
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I'm running exchange 2003 sp2 with 2 mail stores and a front end OWA server. 
We will be changing our company name to from abc.com to def.com. I know
I can easily change the recipient policy on exchange and replicate a new primary 
smpt address company wide and create a new MX record. Should be easy enough.

My question  is what are the benefits of renaming or possibly migrating our AD to a new controller? 

Do I need to rename active directory? I cant imagine our employees noticing anything different besides they now have new email addresses.

Company Rename (domain\exchange) Rename one or both?

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