Issues with Entourage and renaming a domain

E

eremy

Hello all,

We're in the process of renaming the college where I work. In the
process of this we will be changing our domain name (rmwc.edu ->
randolphcollege.edu) and since we don't have a lot of Mac savvy folks
on staff here the boss has asked me to check into issues that might
arise. Since our macs aren't actually in the domain, this has been a
pretty easy job, but the one thing I am not sure of is possible issues
with Exchange and Entourage.

A quick search of Google and the like has turned up nothing useful.
Has anyone gone through a domain name change and noticed any issues
with Entourage talking to a Exchange 2003 server after a domain name
change?
 
W

William Smith

Hello all,

We're in the process of renaming the college where I work. In the
process of this we will be changing our domain name (rmwc.edu ->
randolphcollege.edu) and since we don't have a lot of Mac savvy folks
on staff here the boss has asked me to check into issues that might
arise. Since our macs aren't actually in the domain, this has been a
pretty easy job, but the one thing I am not sure of is possible issues
with Exchange and Entourage.

A quick search of Google and the like has turned up nothing useful.
Has anyone gone through a domain name change and noticed any issues
with Entourage talking to a Exchange 2003 server after a domain name
change?
Click to expand...

Do you have the same domain name internally as well as externally? This
is a difficult setup and not very common. If so then you'll need to
change the three server addresses in each Entourage account on each Mac
to reflect the domain name change. Be aware that when you change the
Exchange Server address the current account will be deleted along with
the mail and the the new account will resynchronized (redownload)
everything.

If you're only changing your external domain name but not your internal
domain name then you shouldn't have any interruptions in service.

I'm not sure if this is the information you're needing but if not please
provide additional detail.

Hope this helps! bill
 
Top