Hello Syed,
Depending on your forest setup you have this limitations with renaming:
In a Windows Server 2003 forest, you cannot:
Change which domain is the forest root domain. Changing the DNS or the
NetBIOS name of the forest root domain, or both, is supported.
Drop domains from the forest or add domains to the forest. The number of
domains in the forest before and after the rename/restructure operation must
remain the same.
Rename a domain with the same name that another domain gave up in a single
forest restructure operation.
And as you said the procedure is not that easy, all DCs have to be rebooted
multiple times. ADMT will run parallel and the users are effected a bit less
then using domain rename.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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> Hello Florian and Ace,
>
> Thanks for the comments. How abt introducing windows 2008
> server as ADC, tranfering the roles from windows 2003 to 2008 and then
> renaming the windows 2008 domain.
>
> I know its bit lenghty procedure. Please comment how far its good.
>
> Thanks
>
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