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I have several questions about using the rendom utility for renaming our 2003
domain as we are undergoing a name change. We have only a single domain in
our 2003 native AD forest. There are no other forests and no trusts
setup/needed. We have maybe 50 nodes including printers over 2 locations so
I'm hoping this is a fairly straight forward task.
1) Will changing the domain name (forest/netbios name), effect any domain
accounts listed within a SQL server? In other words their are users with
certain SQL roles that were added from domainname\userid . Will it
automatically change to newdomainname\userid and have the same permissions.
2) Will all new local profile folders be created and therefore everyone will
lose their Outlook configuration, favorites, printers, local files because
there's now a c:\documents and settings\userid.newdomainname folder on
everyone's PC?
3) Are permissions affected anywhere?
4) Are DNS and WINS cleaned up especially if we don't need to change any
host names?
Seems like there's some KB articles on rendom, but nothing thorough in how
running the utility affects other things except for our Exchange2003 server
where there's a "FIX" utility. Rendom doesn't really instill much confidence
and sounds like a pain or unadvisable to undo.
domain as we are undergoing a name change. We have only a single domain in
our 2003 native AD forest. There are no other forests and no trusts
setup/needed. We have maybe 50 nodes including printers over 2 locations so
I'm hoping this is a fairly straight forward task.
1) Will changing the domain name (forest/netbios name), effect any domain
accounts listed within a SQL server? In other words their are users with
certain SQL roles that were added from domainname\userid . Will it
automatically change to newdomainname\userid and have the same permissions.
2) Will all new local profile folders be created and therefore everyone will
lose their Outlook configuration, favorites, printers, local files because
there's now a c:\documents and settings\userid.newdomainname folder on
everyone's PC?
3) Are permissions affected anywhere?
4) Are DNS and WINS cleaned up especially if we don't need to change any
host names?
Seems like there's some KB articles on rendom, but nothing thorough in how
running the utility affects other things except for our Exchange2003 server
where there's a "FIX" utility. Rendom doesn't really instill much confidence
and sounds like a pain or unadvisable to undo.