All,

Due to infrastructure changes at a customer location, I am in the process of
renaming and changing roles of some servers this weekend.  One of the
requirements is the renaming of a Server 2008 domain controller, holding all
FSMO primary roles.  I have added the new name as a secondary name using
NETDOM, however when trying to use NETDOM "makeprimary" and "remove"
commands, I am receiving an error messages stating either "The specified
account does not exist", or "The parameter is incorrect".  I will receive
one of these errors each time I try to run the command, however which error
I receive does not seem to be consistent.

After working with this, the NETLOGON service is now failing to start and I
am getting messages in error log "Active Directory Domain Services was
unable to establish a connection with the global catalog".

Also interesting- in the sysdm.cpl system properties, the new computer name
is listed, however in all Active Directory management applets it is listed
by the old name.  The system can be also reached via DNS queries for either
the old name or the new name.

Has anyone ever experienced a similar issue or have any ideas?  Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated as my normal research avenues have
been unsuccessful.

Matt

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