Renaming the domain

[Austin Tovey]

Hi group, I have a customer who has 300 client PC's all joined to DomainA.
The boss wants to change to NetBIOS name to DomainB, The new domain
controllers for DomainB have already been built are there any tools or a
quick way to point all the NT based computers at domain B without having to
dis-joint and re-join them.

Yours hopefully!

 

[Austin Tovey]

One more point, I think I can use ADMT to import all the client computer
SID's I just need to know to change the client computers!

 

[Oli Restorick]

Netdom.exe (on your Windows 2000 CD) will let you script the change of
domain. I used that with psexec from www.sysinternals.com to run the
command remotely and it worked.

Regards

Oli

 

[Oli Restorick]

Also, note the following:

You do have to join the domain. A machine's relationship to a domain is
much much more than just a text string. When a machine is joined to a
domain, various security IDs (SIDs) are exchanged.

If any permissions are set on the local machine by hand (e.g.
DomainA\MyGroup having full control to the Program Files folder, or even
something as simple as DomainA\Everyone being placed in the Power Users
group), these will need to be sorted out.

Regards

Oli