Hi. I have a client who has built his own SBS server and somehow managed to
mess up DNS. The domain name is company.local, but looking at AD U & C, the
fqdn for the server shows as server.company. PC's show as pc.company.local.
Not sure how he managed to do this, but now running dcdiag before installing
Exchange I get rcode_server_failure and several other weird issues.

The question is, can I change the fqdn for the server and how do I do
it? Bearing in mind that it is SBS, I can't demote and re-promote.

TIA

Andrew

Hi

check this link
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=257623&sd=RMVP

What errors are you seing on eventviewer
did you run dcdiag, netdiag and checked for output erros

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I hope that the information above s you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"AMB" <andrewb@iqt.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi. I have a client who has built his own SBS server and somehow managed
> to mess up DNS. The domain name is company.local, but looking at AD U & C,
> the fqdn for the server shows as server.company. PC's show as
> pc.company.local. Not sure how he managed to do this, but now running
> dcdiag before installing Exchange I get rcode_server_failure and several
> other weird issues.
>
> The question is, can I change the fqdn for the server and how do I do
> it? Bearing in mind that it is SBS, I can't demote and re-promote.
>
> TIA
>
> Andrew
>

Hi,
The errors in the event log are netlogon 5781, 5782 & 5774. The article
looks promising, so I will have a try when I get a chance, but I'm a little
(lot!!) wary as it is a SBS box with of course no alternate DC. Risky.

Thanks

Andrew

"Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> check this link
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=257623&sd=RMVP
>
> What errors are you seing on eventviewer
> did you run dcdiag, netdiag and checked for output erros
>
> --
> I hope that the information above s you
>
> Good Luck
> Jorge Silva
> MCSA
> Systems Administrator
>
> "AMB" <andrewb@iqt.com.au> wrote in message
> news:O4GMT9rrGHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi. I have a client who has built his own SBS server and somehow managed
>> to mess up DNS. The domain name is company.local, but looking at AD U &
>> C, the fqdn for the server shows as server.company. PC's show as
>> pc.company.local. Not sure how he managed to do this, but now running
>> dcdiag before installing Exchange I get rcode_server_failure and several
>> other weird issues.
>>
>> The question is, can I change the fqdn for the server and how do I do
>> it? Bearing in mind that it is SBS, I can't demote and re-promote.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
>