Is there anybody with the experience of renaming a Windows SBS2003 domain? I know you can use tools like rendom.exe for the full version of Windows 2003 but have no clue as what to use for SBS or if it will work. All suggestions will be appreciated, and yes I have tried Google

Umm, sorry to say but you can not rename a Windows SBS domain once it has been created.

Domain rename is not supported in SBS 2003. After you install Windows Small Business Server 2003, you CANNOT change:
- The full DNS name for the internal domain
- The NetBIOS domain name
- The computer name.

Reason: These settings are used to configure Windows Small Business Server tools and applications.

To change these names, you MUST reinstall Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Hope this helps.

I think the Computer name can be change at the "My computer" properties

@folahann

He's not trying to change the computer name. Domain name aint the same as computer name.

Maleeq:

@folahann

He's not trying to change the computer name. Domain name aint the same as computer name.

O my bad ! i got that wrong Sorrryy

Maleeq, thx for your suggestion,I was just being lazy. Problem was the SBS was created with a valid domain name instead of .local , this made it impossible to access the company website which is hosted externally, but creating an A record in DNS which pointed to the IP address of the website fixed the problem, this saved me the hassle of rebuilding the SBS server. SBS boffins take note; the rule of thumb is that SBS domains should be .local if not you are in for a lot of pain

Thanks