Renaming a Domain - Effect on SharePoint 1

[Stevehewitt]

Guys,

I am planning renaming our domain (company rename) but we are using SharePoint Portal Server. Does anyone know or have any idea if this will have any effect on SharePoint?

Thanks,


Steve.

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

I think you will run into problems, I did some testing a while back both with domain name change and Port number change in SharePoint. I got SharePoint to run pretty decent, but there was things that did not work, indexing stopped working and also when installing webparts it behaved pretty odd.

I am sure it is possible to change, but it might require a lot of work. I did also change portnumber on the website in IIS and that also made sharepoint behave strange. I am not sure that the SharePoint configuration database is updated when making a name (or port) change.

So I would try and test it in a demo environment before trying with a production environment.

Cheers,
Thomas

http://www.thompa.se

 

[Stevehewitt]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for that - interesting.

I'm suprised that changing the port number had any effect - would have thought it was just IIS that would have been touched...

Thanks again - bit of food for thought.

Cheers,


Steve.

 

[wolvie3421]

Yeah, before you physically change the domain name or port number for SPS, you'll need to do the backup and restore method. This is due to the configuration database having links to the server hardcoded - resulting in broken functionalities in at least the Search tool.