Hi Experts !
I am in the process of building a test environment for my company.
Production AD functional level (Both forest and domain) is on windows Server 2008 R2. We have 100K+ users on our AD which is on single domain single forest structure. We have most of the MS products like exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, Lync 2010, System Center
2012 SP1 etc.
I know that the best but risky approach to get a good test environment is by Isolating a DC, seizing roles and doing a cleanup.
My plan is to
Build a New DC on a new subnet
Isolate that subnet
Shutdown the new DC and do a cleanup to remove new DC from production AD
Switch on thew new DC
Seize the FMSO roles
Rename the Domain Name
Cleanup the stale entries for domain controllers, exchange servers, lync etc
Add a fresh installation of exchange, lync etc
Is there any other point to be considered? Is there any limitation on renaming the domain name ?
Any comments/tips/suggestions much appreciated !
Cheerio
Shaba
Cheers ! Shaba