From: "Geo" 

"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:14192190o52f4pcm874r67h027ihgh4kdp{at}4ax.com...

> That sounds like an *excellent* plan.  I'd like to keep the same
> server name (i.e. "baabra") because I'm sure lots of users have
> shortcut references to it.  So if I name the new server "xbaabra," do
> the upgrade dance, take the old machine offline, and rename the new
> PDC "baabra" all will be (or should be) well in the garden?

With active directory the shares are no longer bound to the machine name,
you can move them from one server to another without breaking anyone's
links. It's hard to explain so you get a picture of what it's like but it's
like another layer has been added that allows you to abstract things into a
virtual namespace.

Geo.

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