I swear I have the best luck when it comes to timing. Three months ago I hadn't played with VM's at all and would have gone "huh"?. Now I have MS Virtual PC 2K7, MS Virtual server 2K5R2, and VMWare Workstation setups all with DC's, servers, and desktop OS's on them. It is awesome for testing, recovery is so simple! Last week I was testing remapping the DEL key, which, if you guys have done that kind of thing, gets pretty special if you screw it up. Same for a local policy of "only allow specified programs to run"....
No more need to rebuild an OS when you cleverly lock yourself out! Also, FYI I rename servers all the time w/out disjoining them...no issues whatsoever. I build them with the name of "sparetire-n" and join them to the domain. This way a scan for sparetire systems tells me how many are OS'd and ready for my guys to rename and use. Also, Intel has "contract to hire" employees and they have a prefix on the name...if they go regular full time then the acct is renamed to remove the prefix. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands" From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Renaming a PC and a user in the domain This would take you 30 seconds to check yourself using two virtual machines (and 30-60 minutes to setup the virtual machines in the first place, but I reckon every decent sys admin has a couple of DCs and client VMs lying around) Cheers Ken From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Renaming a PC and a user in the domain Well, I have to do this for preparing a migration to other trusted domain (copying not moving) so I want to check is changing the pc name is doable from the desktop itself and this will instruct AD for needed changes. I will rename the user from ADUC Thanks GuidoElia HELPPC ________________________________ Da: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mar 29/04/2008 8.27 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Renaming a PC and a user in the domain Um - there shouldn't be any issue doing that (leaving aside any services running on the server that might require additional steps) You will need appropriate permissions to AD though. Cheers Ken From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Renaming a PC and a user in the domain Did anybody tried to rename a PC already in domain without disjoining it and rejoining (eventual issues also for renaming the user) TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
