Comments on: How to rename a Windows Server 2008 domain

By: Qazi Ehteshamuddin

Qazi Ehteshamuddin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:50:50 +0000

Thank you ,
Very simple and helpful , worked well for me.

By: Vlad (Small Business Blog)

Vlad (Small Business Blog) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:53:56 +0000

Thank you, you just saved me two hours of aggravation and probably same thing tomorrow

I would just say that instead of examples on gpfixup utility (or, rather, in addition to them) I would’ve added the explanation from the document you have linked to. Namely the following passage:

gpfixup /olddns:OldDomainDnsName
/newdns:NewDomainDNSName
/oldnb:OldDomainNetBIOSName
/newnb:NewDomainNetBIOSName
/dc:DcDnsName 2>&1 >gpfixup.log
-Where-
OldDomainDnsName is the old DNS name of the renamed domain.
NewDomainDnsName is the new DNS name of the renamed domain.
OldDomainNetBIOSName is the old NetBIOS name of the renamed domain.
NewDomainNetBIOSName is the new NetBIOS name of the renamed domain.
DcDnsName is the DNS host name of a domain controller in the renamed domain, preferably the PDC emulator, that successfully completed the rename operation with a final Done state in the dclist.xml state file in “STEP 8: Execute Domain Rename Instructions” earlier in this document.

By: hafiz

hafiz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:16:02 +0000

Thanks. Its a wonderful contribution.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:21:54 +0000

this is what im looking for, thank you
its a shame that there’s not enough resource on the Web regarding on how to use rendom.exe

By: Sheriff

Sheriff — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:03:21 +0000

Hi Sheikh, Thanks a lot you saved me a lot of trouble. It worked perfectly. My server warned me and rebooted before I could enter the “rendom /clean” command but I run it after restarting and logging in. Sallam.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:01:04 +0000

Hi Scott,

08 mode is not a requirement but in my example shown, I actually renamed a Windows Server 2008 domain which for the FFL/DFL had to be 08 native. If it was not, I would then just be talking about renaming a Windows Server 2003 domain and having an one-off 08 DC in that domain.

By: Robot-Scott

Robot-Scott — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:48:21 +0000

just an fyi, the technet website says that only a 2003 forest and domain level is needed to perform the renaming, not 2008… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816631(WS.10).aspx

By: J Wynn

J Wynn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:17:15 +0000

Thank you. You save my day.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:38:41 +0000

Thanks for the long-to-short on this.
Worked great!