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Unsupported Single Label Domain Name What Do You Do Next |
Customer
Betting and Gaming Company with over 14,000 employees in five countries.
Region
London
Challenges
Single label domain name unsupported by core business application
Windows 2000 based Active Directory
Child domain within the Active Directory Forest
Solution
Embrionic worked with Ladbrokes to plan and implement an Active Directory domain rename that incorporated:
Testing of upgrade and rename operations in a virtualised environment
Decommission of a child domain within the forest
Upgrade of forest root domain to Windows Server 2003 native mode
Domain rename to replace single label domain name with a supported name
Step-by-Step procedures for both the upgrade and rename operations
Benefits
Fully renamed and application supported Active Directory forest:
Upgraded Active Directory infrastructure
Application supported Active Directory namespace
Minimal downtime during upgrade and rename operations
