Are there any problems with renaming a Windows 2003 R2 domain controller? I know that MSDE/SQL will have a fit. The issue I have is that we are replacing two existing servers with two new servers. We have some clunky client software that requires UNC pathing to various network shares on a server we'll call "old server". What I want to do is migrate everything from "old server" to "new server", decommission "old server", then rename "new server" to "old server". (then install MSDE) "New server" will be a DC and probably the "PDC", so to speak.
Is it going to be as simple as changing the computer name? Or will there be some behind the scenes "gotchas" that are going to kill me?
Thanks in advance!
Is it going to be as simple as changing the computer name? Or will there be some behind the scenes "gotchas" that are going to kill me?
Thanks in advance!