FQDN and Domain Naming

[NW2468]

I'm running a new install of Server 2008 and setting up a completely new domain.

 

When it asks for FQDN, I'm putting in mail.company.com since that is what we have in our current SBS2003 server. (before we had company.local and were getting rejected by some ISPs)

 

At the beginning of the wizard, I thought I remember it asking my to name the domain, which I typed company.local

 

However, at the end of the wizard, it sums up everything and says:

 

"The new domain name is mail.company.com. This is also the name of the new forest"

 

"The NetBIOS name of the domain is MAIL"

 

 

 

We want our domain name to be company.local, any idea why it defaults the name to the FQDN that we entered? Putting company.local as the FQDN isn't an option as it creates rejects. As for the NetBIOS name, I'm assuming it just picked that up from mail.company.com since I never typed MAIL anywhere.

 

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks for the help

[C-Prompt]

This article should help you correct the problem:

 

Rename Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers

[bobby]

On using Windows SBS, we can only create a parent domain, not a child. :)

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Bobby Zulkarnain

IT Trainer and Consultant

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