Hi,
I'm getting ready to rebuild my ISA 2006 EE as a TMG 2010 server and I've read all the information I could find about exporting the configuration and the certficiates and the like and I think I'm hopefully going to be ok there.
My question concerns the name of my ISA/TMG machine. I'm going to be using the box my ISA server is on for the new TMG server, just replacing the current drive that has ISA with a new drive to be used with the rebuild of the TMG server - Win 2K8 R2 and TMG. I would like to keep the same machine/network name for my new TMG server as I had for the ISA server. This will save me a lot of heartache I think. Is this possible? I can think of a couple of possible places where I could run into trouble. First would be when I add the newly rebuild TMG server to my domain. There will already be a machine name in my AD with that name obviously. Will this cause me any problems? The second problem I can think of is related to certficates. I know as part of the export process from the old ISA server I need to export my certificates. Should I bother to export the machine certificate on my old ISA server or will I need to issue a new certificate to my new TMG server that has the same name?
Hopefully the answers to these questions are easy and straightforward.
Thanks in advance,
Nick