Rename 2012 FQDN

[NewBoy]

Has anyone any info on how to do this we wish to move from a .local domain to something like .internal etc basically because the school has made a massive apple investment recently so this obviously now causes an issue, is there a way of doing it on the fly so to speak without having to flatten everything ???

[Norphy]

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738208(v=ws.10).aspx

 

If you have on-prem Exchange, you may be in for an interesting time...

[NewBoy]

No there is no exchange server etc just trying to see if it's possible at the moment also trying to consider any knock on effects such as certificates or installs etc that rely on the FQDN.

[PyROm]

Had to do this when changing school name... with exchange in tow. It was fairly straight forward, only thing it doesnt make a big fuss about is between renaming and cleaning up.... make sure all your pc`s are turned on/reboot them/check them, they will auto switch domains. If you dont and run cleanup, you will have to manually leave old domain and join new domain.

[ricki]

Only tried this once on test rig and broke network on windows 2008 Richard

[NewBoy]

Had to do this when changing school name... with exchange in tow. It was fairly straight forward, only thing it doesnt make a big fuss about is between renaming and cleaning up.... make sure all your pc`s are turned on/reboot them/check them, they will auto switch domains. If you dont and run cleanup, you will have to manually leave old domain and join new domain.

 

Thanks for the reply what do you mean by run cleanup ??? I plan on setting up a virtual network first and trying on that before i delve into the live system.

[PyROm]

At one point in the the process your active directory will contain information for both new and old domains. After switching to new domain you run cleanup to remove info about old domain (I dont think it has any negative effect to leave doing cleanup for a while).

[PyROm]

I think I used this walkthrough (note it doesnt mention auto domain joining for clients before /clean) https://mizitechinfo.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/simple-guide-how-to-rename-domain-name-in-windows-server-2012/

[NewBoy]

Cheers for that PyROm,

 

I'm going to set up my virtual enviroment tomorrow and give it a try :-)

[Paid_Peanuts]

Cheers for that PyROm,

 

I'm going to set up my virtual enviroment tomorrow and give it a try :-)

 

How did it go?

We are potentially doing the same over summer to facilitate a new academy name etc.

[jmak]

Would this work to go from .Local to an externally resolvable domain, eg school.Local to school.Co.uk ?

 

And assuming I have all clients logged into domain, they move automagically?

[ful56_uk]

Do you have system centre installed on your network? I don't domain rename is supported with sccm installed. Could be wrong though. Edited July 15, 2016 by ful56_uk

[jmak]

Do you have system centre installed on your network? I don't domain rename is supported with sccm installed. Could be wrong though.

For once not having SCCM might work to my benefit