Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [rename]

119 questions
1
vote
2 answers

Renaming of domain in Active Directory with Certificate authority

i have domain, washington.example.com on Windows Server 2012 R2. For intergations with office 365, my organization, decided to rename domain name from washington.example.com to example.com. My organization has several domain controllers, that are…
Piduna
  • 541
  • 4
  • 12
  • 25
1
vote
0 answers

AD domain rename problems, can't add server of the same name

I have inherited an active directory domain controller, and after adding a number of servers I found that I couldn't add a server with a specific name. I since found out the admin who built the domain had used this name I was trying to use initially…
morleyc
  • 1,150
  • 13
  • 47
  • 89
1
vote
1 answer

WMI E_ACCESSDENIED errors when attempting to remotely rename computer via PowerShell

I am trying to run a script to rename remote computers via PowerShell. The problem I'm running into is that I'm getting the following error: Rename-Computer : Cannot establish the WMI connection to the computer 'computername' with the following…
pants_towel
  • 61
  • 1
  • 4
1
vote
1 answer

how to loop files in folder and rename extension in sftp

Could someone show me how to rename all files extension inside folder in sftp? Example, I have folder "Test" in sftp and inside this folder have few files, such as, test1.tmp, test2.tmp..... and I want to rename all files that have extension 'tmp'…
vibol
  • 11
  • 3
1
vote
2 answers

Copying a SQL database under a new name to same server

I am trying to create a copy of a SQL Server 2008 database under a new name on the same server. I have physical access to the machine. I have tried to create a full backup and then restore that backup under a new name and I get an error from SSMS…
Earlz
  • 1,019
  • 5
  • 13
  • 29
1
vote
1 answer

Renaming a computer via WMI in Windows 7

I'm having trouble renaming a local computer via WMI. I'm following the MSDN documentation (and not following it -- in an attempt to get SOME sort of result), but I can't seem to get the Win32_ComputerSystem.Rename() method to work. Set colComputers…
oo.
  • 861
  • 6
  • 11
1
vote
1 answer

How to detect use of old server name?

We're in the process of planning the migration of some databases from an old doddery server (running SQL Server 2000) to a new one running SQL Server 2008. As not everything is going to the same new server, we're intending to 'retire' the name of…
MartW
  • 1,305
  • 10
  • 15
1
vote
1 answer

What impact would a domain rename have on Azure AD sync?

We have a local AD domain which syncs up to Azure. We recently decided we want to rename this domain and I am unsure what impact this will have on Azure. The domain rename doesn't change the GUID, so does that mean Azure will hook back up to the…
jhod91
  • 11
  • 2
1
vote
0 answers

How to set if a computer in AD is assigned to a particular user?

We have computers that are renamed every time a new employee shows up. This causes a lot of work unnecessary work for the IT department. Now while it isn't always true 100% of the time that each user MUST use the same computer all the time, it's…
leeand00
  • 4,869
  • 15
  • 69
  • 110
1
vote
4 answers

Renaming cron files

Will renaming a cron file in /var/spool/cron/ mean that the contents of the cron file will not be executed anymore? Or will all files in /var/spool/cron/ be executed, no matter the name of the file.
Tom_13
  • 51
  • 2
  • 5
1
vote
1 answer

zsh, zmv mass rename sub directories nothing happening on large volume of directories

I've set autoload -U zmv alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' When on sample data (~20 folders with subfolders) I run mmv images/**/advert images/**/notice it just works as expected. But if I run same command on real data (hundreds of thousands folders),…
rolkos
  • 113
  • 3
1
vote
1 answer

Rename NTFS file to eliminate multiple periods via batch

I at wits end trying to rename NTFS files that have technically legal, but problematic multiple periods in my Windows 2012 Server share Files are dropped in a share that look like this: THIS.IS.THE.FILE.NAME.20150102 …
dave_the_dev
  • 131
  • 3
1
vote
2 answers

Will a Windows domain rename require new SIDs?

If I rename my local windows domain on my domain controller will all of the user accounts associated with the "old" domain name need to be recreated? Will the user SIDs still be valid and would my users login like normal with newdomain\username…
gh0st
  • 245
  • 1
  • 4
  • 19
1
vote
2 answers

After Domain Rename - gpfixup warning - Error 80070057

We run a simple AD (1 DC Server 2012) We had to rename our domain name from a single label domain to: lan.domain.com Following the step by step, all went well, until the last step (that worked perfectly in the dev env) gpfixup /olddns:adatum.com…
Saariko
  • 1,791
  • 14
  • 45
  • 75
1
vote
6 answers

How to rename machines after image install

Today I am deploying 20 brand new Dell workstations. These will all be for public use at a local library and will be replacing 20 older workstations, which will be moved to another branch of the library, all today and by me alone. Once deployed, I…
cop1152
  • 2,656
  • 3
  • 21
  • 32
1 2 3
4
5 6 7 8