Hi Bob,
Thanks for confirmation! It is a lot more comforting knowing that
someone has been "there" before. Thanks again!
Mike Thommes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 domain controller rename
Mike-
The process went fine. After the change, I did have to make the change
that Jorge mentioned as referenced in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316826 (Thanks
Jorge)
"You Must Rename the SYSVOL Member Object to Rename a Windows Server
2003
Domain Controller"
Any of the lessons learned were mostly unique to our environment, E.G.-
Some 3rd party management agents didn't like the rename and had to be
reinstalled. We use BIND so some adjustments had to be made to allow
DDNS updates for the new hostname.
I was planning on using netdom all along so, in that sense, I followed
Dean's advice as well. It was very comforting that he didn't weigh in
with any gotchas other than that :-)
So basically what I did was follow-
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/S
erverHelp/aad1169a-f0d2-47d5-b0ea-989081ce62be.mspx
1]netdom computername CurrentComputerName /add:NewComputerName
Ensure the computer account updates and DNS registrations are completed
2]netdom computername CurrentComputerName /makeprimary:NewComputerName
3]Restart the computer.
4]netdom computername NewComputerName /remove:OldComputerName
Before 1] I verified the DC's health, DS and FRS replication, recorded
the SRV records and SPN's etc
After 1] I verified the expected SRV records were in DNS and ensured
that
msDS-additionalDnsHostName and msDS-AdditionalSamAccountName
attributes were replicated to all the other DC's.
After the remainder of the steps, I verified all the old DNS records,
additional names etc were gone, SPN's were proper, rechecked replication
etc and renamed the SYSVOL Member Object as outlined in the KB.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes,
Michael M.
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 7:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] 2003 domain controller rename
Back on May 12, Bob Free asked about any caveats regarding renaming a
2003 Domain Controller. Dean Wells and Jorge de Almeida Pinto responded
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg28532.html)
. We are ready to embark on a similar path. I wonder how Bob Free's
exercise went and if there were any lessons learned? (Sorry, Bob, I
wanted to send this directly to you but I couldn't find your email
address.) Thanks!
Mike Thommes
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