Rename machine (or join/disjoin from domain) then reboot. Why?

[Jim in Arizona]

One of my co-workers asked me the other day what it is excactly that forces
us to reboot a windows box after we change its name or join/disjoin it from
a domain. The question was "What services are affected so we can just
restart those instead of doing a reboot?".

Does anyone know an answer to this?

TIA,
Jim

 

[Sharon Fink]

One of my co-workers asked me the other day what it is excactly that forces
us to reboot a windows box after we change its name or join/disjoin it from
a domain. The question was "What services are affected so we can just
restart those instead of doing a reboot?".

Does anyone know an answer to this?

TIA,
Jim

Many security choices and various policies load at startup only and
apply to that session. These are directly related to machine ID, user
ID, network relation and are applied to all resources (software, data,
hardware, network shares, etc). After changes of a a certain magnitude,
a restart is required to dump the old info and load the new. Why? No
idea if it's a limitation of XP or its security tools -OR- if it's due
to the security model that Microsoft chose to adopt for XP. I do know
that it takes more than stopping/starting a few services to effectively
propagate certain changes.

A very simplified and incomplete response but hope it's helpful
nonetheless,

 

[Sharon Fink]

Many security choices and various policies load at startup only and
apply to that session. These are directly related to machine ID, user
ID, network relation and are applied to all resources (software, data,
hardware, network shares, etc). After changes of a a certain magnitude,
a restart is required to dump the old info and load the new. Why? No
idea if it's a limitation of XP or its security tools -OR- if it's due
to the security model that Microsoft chose to adopt for XP. I do know
that it takes more than stopping/starting a few services to effectively
propagate certain changes.

A very simplified and incomplete response but hope it's helpful
nonetheless,

PS: Toss authentication and credentials in to the mix.