Comments on: Server 2008 Domain Rename

By: DNSRight

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By: Mike Harradon

Mike Harradon — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:36:57 +0000

The Microsoft technet article says to run the process from a “control station” – a seperate machine, not a domain controller. In my test lab it worked fine without doing this. Do you feel this is necessay? Thanks.

By: Teresa Maccarter

Teresa Maccarter — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:02:39 +0000

thanks for the great post

By: John

John — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:22:08 +0000

Great article. Clear and to the point !

Planning a rename like this. Good to have your step by step.
Do you have a similar step by step for an exchange running on the domain being renamed?

much appreciated
/John

By: John

John — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:21:03 +0000

I wish that I had read this yesterday. Had to rename a clients domain and did it through DCPROMO, now what was to be a 3 hour job has turned into 13 hour job.

Thanks for the write up, I will be sure to use it in the future should this need ever come up again.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:54:12 +0000

This is a great article!

Thanks for the info. Recently completed 2 windows server 2003 Domain Renames in order to setup a 2-way trust.

Will need to do a rename on a 2008 AD Domain Shortly.

From what i’ve been told creating a new domain from scratch and importing everything is the easier path, but this process is easy (if you know what you’re doing.

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:58:43 +0000

I am sorry that these steps did not work for you. As you’ll see from previous comments this worked well for others besides me. There were a number of prerequisites required to make this successful, I assume you verified all of these steps? I also suggested that this not be done in a production environment without reading all of the related documentation from Microsoft. If, as you say, this was successful up to the point of changing the DNS suffix, I see no reason why that would have caused your AD database to be “lost”. Being a production environment I would assume that you had recent backups which would make recovery easier, rather than building from scratch. Again, I’m sorry this did not work for you, and best of luck in your recovery. As with anything done in a production environment, I recommend testing and verification in a test environment first.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:13:21 +0000

Just tried to follow these instructions. Everything seemed great until the end — changed the DNS suffix on the domain controllers and rebooted… to find that all Active Directory and DNS catalogs had been lost. I’m now very, very unhappy as I have two dysfunctional domain controllers and 15 orphaned workstations on my hands. I would strongly discourage anyone else from following these instructions. Leaving now to go rebuild from scratch what was an hour ago a completely well-functioning domain… sigh.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:49:28 +0000

Worked like charm, Very smooth process and better then MS Doc.

Thanks a lot

By: Rajan Waykole

Rajan Waykole — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:07:58 +0000

Really very good article. Wanted to know about DNS forward and reverse look zone after renaming domain.

Thanks,
RajanW

By: Guillaume D.

Guillaume D. — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:33:47 +0000

Thanks a lot !
It’s a great article, clear and well explained.