Comments on: How to rename a Windows Server 2008 domain

By: Md Masroor Islam

Md Masroor Islam — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:37:16 +0000

Thanks a lot buddy.
It is working fine……Thanks for keeping it simple and short.

By: Ixobelle

Ixobelle — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:14:57 +0000

worked great for me!

there were a few lingering loose ends to tie up (changing the Primary DNS Suffix of the PDC to remove the lingering remnants of the old domain in MMC etc), but so far so good.

My own domain is a tiny home network of 4 machines an a server, and I was running into issues where the internal domain (AD) and external domain(www., mail., etc) were using the same “xxxxx.com” suffix, which lead to me not being able to find http://www.xxxxxx.com internally, since no box in the LAN was named “www”, and this helped divide internal and external DNS.

Thanks for the concise writeup!

By: Spanky

Spanky — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:01:42 +0000

Getting the following error when running rendom /upload:

C:\Windows\System32>rendom /showforest
alsd.circ11.dcn [ForestRoot Domain, FlatName:ALSD]
DomainDnsZones.alsd.circ11.dcn [PartitionType:Application]
ForestDnsZones.alsd.circ11.dcn [PartitionType:Application]

The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\System32>rendom /upload
Failed to upload Dns Root alias on the DN: CN=cf426965-7337-4ec0-af54-b8e73e05ae
55,CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=alsd,DC=local, on host alsd-pdc.alsd.local.

000021A2: SvcErr: DSID-030A0AE6, problem 5012 (DIR_ERROR), data 8610
: The system cannot open the device or file specified. :110

Any thoughts, please?

By: [mab]L[oh]G

[mab]L[oh]G — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:09:09 +0000

2008 R2 Domäne – netbios name ändern…

Ich hatte die Chance, diese Woche etwas in einer Produktivumgebung umzusetzen, was man normalerweise vielleicht mal in einer Teststellung macht: Eine nachträgliche NetBIOS Namensänderung einer 2008 R2 Domäne mit 2 AD Controllern, einer davon sogar mit …

By: abhinandan

abhinandan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:06:40 +0000

i want to says that this is not a good explain of changing the domain name

By: dipankar

dipankar — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:29:27 +0000

thanks..is worked!!!great

By: Monrojo

Monrojo — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:47:44 +0000

Can this bea done on the server or doest it have to be done from a workstation

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:53:25 +0000

Thanks. It worked well as per instructions. GPFixup command went very well with dns & nb
but my full computer name of the domain is not changed. still showing old name.
How do i change my full computer name in the domain.
Pls guide me
God bless – PJ:)

By: Ethiopia

Ethiopia — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:09:19 +0000

Thanx a lot man. It works.

By: Sat

Sat — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:34:47 +0000

Hi, Fantastic instructions but I’ve ran into problems.
I’m trying to rename our school domain, I have one server and everything went well until I ran:
repadmin /syncall /d /e /P /q DcDnsName NewDomainDN

I keep getting the following error:

DsBindWithCred to h-server.hollybrook.local failed with status 1722 (0x6ba):
The RPC server is unavailable.

I seem to be stuck at this point and cannot proceed any further.

Thanks in advance
Sat