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Focusing on the Management of Microsoft Centric Infrastructures...  Active Directory, Exchange Server and Windows Servers, using Utilities, Scripts and how-to articles that are written by engineers like you... I wrote the most of the Utilities, Programs and Scripts out here and I use them daily in my life as a systems administrator. Also offered are solutions to every day IT problems. Please take a look around. You may find tools that will make your job easier. I will be adding more utilities and articles regularly. So come back soon and thanks for stopping by! |
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So I performed a domain rename recently using Microsoft's "Domain Rename Tools". I was building a lab domain that needed to be an exact copy of my production AD (active directory). But as the lab runs its own network on a separate Internet connection and is less secure than the production network, I didn't want the "real" domain name available for hackers. In other words if the lab domain got hacked and the AD security info was compromised at least they wouldn't have the production network name to search for. I'm not going into the procedure for a domain rename if that's what you need you can get the rename procedure document here. Also you can download the domain rename tools here. But I ran into issues right away after the reboot of the domain controller and I wanted to post my very simple fix for that here. On that note I should say I have completed several domain renames and I have always had this same issue. After completing the Domain Rename and rebooting the controller the Directory service would not start. There were actual error messages (that I didn't capture) that complained about the domain name. As I started scanning through the registry looking for a cause I noticed that the original domain name was still remaining in many keys. This is obviously a real problem. I researched the issue but couldn't find any real answers. I'm not a 100% on this but I believe the problem may be in the domain name itself. |
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