(2006-07-21) Additional Information About Domain Renames

Mathieu Chateau (you can find his BLOG here: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/) did a domain rename in his environment and with his permission I provide this information which is his own experience (which is also available on his own blog).

Additional impact/actions for:

• SQL server:
  
  • Follow the steps in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319016
    
  • Re-ACL the AD users in SQL to change the domain name to the new name
    
• Cluster server:
  
  • Follow the steps in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269196
    
  • If the cluster hosts Exchange 2003 SP1 or later do this after the XDR-fixup
    
• SMS server:
  
  • Uninstall and re-install after first exporting collections/queries as MOF files
    
• WSUS server:
  
  • No issues found
    
• Citrix server:
  
  • All users needed to be recreated
    
  • If you want to change the farm name also you would need to recreate all published applications
    
• Miscellaneous:
  
  • Norton passed trough without any trouble, server and client still
    communicate well.
    
  • You will need to update all places where the domain name is used like services, scheduled tasks, etc. Scripting helped here.
    

Original Source:

• http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2006/07/domain-rename-done.html
  

Additional/More information:

• https://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/2005/11/24/considering-a-domain-rename-2/
• https://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/2006/05/25/domain-rename-impact/
  

Cheers,
Jorge
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