server name change, now exchange not working??

Hello all,

I recently deployed Windows 2003 small business server in our office to
replace a very old windows 2000 box. When doing so, I initially named the
server a different name than the server it was to replace. I then changed the
server name from andy2 (not so creative name based on the server it was
replacing... andy) to andy once it was fully in place and the old machine was
out of the picture. This made it very easy for all of the computers in the
office to still address the same network file stores and such, but a few
things on the server such as web outlook stopped working.
I get a 503 service unavailable error message on the web site. I looked at
the exchange services and they are not running and will not start. In
exchange system manager andy2 is still the only server it lists (which of
course doesn't work as thats no longer the server's name). What do I need to
do to change this? I thought I could just delete the old one and add a new
one but no such luck so far. What is required in order to change all things
that currently have the old name over to the new name?

Thanks

Lanwench
Thu Jul 21 01:08:29 CDT 2005



In news:FEDA0011-8E16-4620-BE1F-28D394282695@microsoft.com,
techno550 <techno550@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently deployed Windows 2003 small business server in our office
> to replace a very old windows 2000 box. When doing so, I initially
> named the server a different name than the server it was to replace.
> I then changed the server name from andy2 (not so creative name based
> on the server it was replacing... andy) to andy once it was fully in
> place and the old machine was out of the picture. This made it very
> easy for all of the computers in the office to still address the same
> network file stores and such, but a few things on the server such as
> web outlook stopped working.
> I get a 503 service unavailable error message on the web site. I
> looked at the exchange services and they are not running and will not
> start. In exchange system manager andy2 is still the only server it
> lists (which of course doesn't work as thats no longer the server's
> name). What do I need to do to change this? I thought I could just
> delete the old one and add a new one but no such luck so far. What is
> required in order to change all things that currently have the old
> name over to the new name?
>
> Thanks

Can you undo what you did? I'm surprised it even let you rename the server.
It isn't such a simple process as you think, particularly in SBS. I suggest
you post in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs to see if what you have can
be fixed, or whether you need to reinstall.