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Renaming your Active Directory Domain

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7-     Create a new DNS AD integrated zone in the DNS server with the name of new domain.

Open DNS management console.

In the console tree, right-click a DNS server, and then click New Zone to open the New Zone Wizard.

In the Welcome screen click next

 

In the Zone type Select Primary zone and to store the zone in Active Directory.

 

In the replication scope Window select to all domain controllers in active directory domain

 

 

Type the name of the new zone (this is will be a temporary name)

 

Allow only secure updates in this zone.

Click finish to exit the wizard

 

8-     Review the new structure using "Rendom /showforest" command line.

9-     Run "Rendom /upload" and check the file "dclist.xml" to assure that all DC in "initial" state.

10-  Push the instructions to all Domain Controllers running "Repadmin /syncall /d /e /p /q domainnamemaster"

11-  Use DNS management console to check the presence of SRV records in the new DNS zone.

12-  Run "Rendom /prepare" to prepare the DC's, check the "dclist.xml" to insure that all domain in "Prepared' state.

13-  Run "Rendom /execute", check the "dclist.xml" to insure that all domain in "Done" state.

14-  Reboot the DC's and all the machines twice.

15-  Run "Rendom /end".

16-  Install Exchange fixup utility for rename domain click download to download the utility, copy the domainlist.xml & domainlistold.xml to the installation folder, and fix the exchange using he following commands:

XDR-fixup /s:DOMAINLISTOLD.XML /e:DOMAINLIST.XML  /trace:TRACEFILE /changes:CHANGESCRIPT.LDF /restore:RESTORESCRIPT.LDF

17-  Restart Exchange twice

18-  Run the following command:

LDIFDE –i –f CHANGESCRIPT.LDF

19-  fix GPO using the command:

gpfixup /olddns:OldDomainDnsName /newdns:NewDomainDNSName /oldnb:OldDomainNetBIOSName   /newnb:NewDomainNetBIOSName /dc:oldDcDnsName  2>&1 >gpfixup.log

20-  Rename DC using the Command line utility netdom.

netdom computername CurrentComputerName /add:NewComputerName

netdom computername CurrentComputerName /makeprimary:NewComputerName

Restart the domain controller, after the successful restart remove the old domain name using:

netdom computername NewComputerName /remove:OldComputerName

21-  Restart Exchange server once.

22-  Delete old DNS zone.

 

 

Renaming your Active Directory Domain

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