All, We're going to be replacing our current 2003 server with a 2012 R2 VM.
As is usual in these things, there are lots of links and embedded references to the old file server name, and we want to start to move away from it. I'd like to stand up a CNAME for the old server pointing to the new server, and everything I've been reading suggests that I need to put up the disablestrictnamechecking regentry on the new machine. I seem to recall something indicating that this isn't necessary for 2012 R2, but can't find reference to it, and I'm wondering if my memory is clouded by something else. Do I need disablestrictnamechecking or not? Kurt
