Outlook points to old DNS-name after domain rename

Hello,

I did a domain rename of a W2K3-Domain including Exchange 2003. At the right
point I ran XDR-fixup. All steps were successful. Only the rendom /clean will
be done in a few days because lots of clients have to restart first.
Everything is working fine in the moment.

I saw, that all Outlook Clients point to the old dns-name of the exchange
server. Outlook is actually working. What happens, when I run rendom /clean
and remove the old dns-name of the domain from dns? Will the Outlook Clients
still work? We have 300 Clients and I wouldn't like configuring them manually.

Has anyone had this case already? Thanks and regards,
Marc

S
Mon May 12 02:04:46 PDT 2008

MAPI profile won't be recreated automatically with the new FQDN.
I believe you can easily create Outlook messaging profiles in logon scripts
for the users but modifying existing profiles (that may include personal
folders etc) is not that trivial. For just 300 users, I'd try manual
approach.

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"Marc Borst" <MarcBorst@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A36DFEBE-EEF8-4815-AA7F-CD684238A4AC@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I did a domain rename of a W2K3-Domain including Exchange 2003. At the
> right
> point I ran XDR-fixup. All steps were successful. Only the rendom /clean
> will
> be done in a few days because lots of clients have to restart first.
> Everything is working fine in the moment.
>
> I saw, that all Outlook Clients point to the old dns-name of the exchange
> server. Outlook is actually working. What happens, when I run rendom
> /clean
> and remove the old dns-name of the domain from dns? Will the Outlook
> Clients
> still work? We have 300 Clients and I wouldn't like configuring them
> manually.
>
> Has anyone had this case already? Thanks and regards,
> Marc