Weird Active Directory setup?

[ttrsux]

Hello,

I've recently taken over a new client and found something interesting on their domain controller/exchange server. It has Win 2k3 Enterprise SP1. When I'm at the logon screen, in the Domain field, the "log on to:" section has BEYONDBMI. Actually, that's the only option I have to log on to... usually there's the domain name and also the local computer name.

However, when I log on and look at DNS, the only zone I see is corp.beyondbmi.com. If open Active Directory, the zone that's listed near the top says corp.beyondbmi.com, and the FQDN of the server is bmi.corp.beyondbmi.com. Also, if I open Exchange manager and browse to the mailbox section (where it shows sizes of mailboxes, last logged on by, etc...), the LAST LOGGED ON BY all show BEYONDBMI\username instead of CORP\username.

Can anyone tell me what's going on or what happened? I'm at a loss.

thx in advance!

 

[porkchopexpress]

The local computer name shouldn't be available on a 2k3 DC.

Is the NetBIOS name for the domain setup to be BEYONDBMI?

You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this...

 

[ttrsux]

Yup, the NetBIOS (pre-win2k) name is BEYONDBMI. This explains why whenever I need to authenticate, I have to type BEYONDBMI\administrator instead of CORP\administrator for it to work. Drumroll.... is there a way to change the NetBIOS name to CORP w/o causing problems? The reason I'm asking is because I need to remove the DC role and only have Exchange on this machine, as it is being moved into an larger existing corp.beyondbmi.com domain, and I'm afraid when I restore ExchangeIS after it's in the "new and improved" domain, it will screw everything up.

p.s. I'm already aware I first need to uninstall Exchange, run dcpromo to demote to member server, reinstall Exchange in run the restore if Exchange info store.

 

[porkchopexpress]

I don't use Exchange i'm afraid so i can't say with any certainty, i'm sure someone in the Exchange forum can help forum955

You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this...

 

[megadan2000]

I had the same problem when I started. What I did to resolve the problem was to setup a workstation with 2k3 server.

Installed Exchange and then moved all of the mailboxes over. Once this was all done I had to make sure that the global catalog etc was ok otherwise if I removed the old exchange server it would have screwed up everything.

I then trashed the old server etc and completely rebuilt it. Exchange was slow for a day or so but then I reversed the process and it was fixed.

Also if you use public folders make sure you have transfered all of the contents over and deleted the replication. Otherwise people will have problems trying to access them.

I hope this answers your question.

Danny