I see quite a few great resources for the technical steps on moving from 2007 to 2010, but have a couple logistic questions. First, a bit about the environment... Running Exchange 2007 SP3 - Inbound and outbound mail are routed through an offsite service for AV/spam, as well as compliance archiving - OWA is also used So, for the install, I want to migrate the mail resources to the a new server. During the installation, this is obviously a new server name. Now my question - is it advisable to rename the server once Exchange 2010 is up and running? Ultimately, my goal is to shut down the old server, rename the new to be the same name & same IP address, and issue a new cert on the new box. This minimizes changes needed with the offisite hosts, as well as all the clients hitting the OWA server. Is this recommended, or will this cause me problems down the road? Thanks for any assistance. Steve

Hi Steve Renaming an Exchange server is not supported (your server will break) so you will need to find another solution. Cheers, Steve

Thanks Steve, I think I found what I needed as part of the Deployment Assistant documentation. Steve