Name change of Exchange Server

While I have never tried this, you should be able to do it. However, you will need to blow away the profiles of everyone's Outlook client since once the Exchaneg service is installed and setup on a machine, it writes the name of the exchange serverinto the registry and even thought it connects to the new server, it will from time to time try to find the old one.

Of course you are going to have to touch each machine anyways since you will need to update their Exchange Server in Outlook.

Not worth it if you ask me.

Changing the NetBIOS name of an Exchange 5.5 server will cause you a lot more work than simply changing the user's profiles. The Exchange directory depends on the system name. Your directory won't start with the new name. You can create a directory on the newly named system in various ways; however, you will lose any distribution lists or custom recipeients. Not at all worth it.

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