80 Change Domain Name Server 2012 R2 Update

In this post we ll learn the steps to rename computer from gui graphical user interface and from command prompt.

Change domain name server 2012 r2. Just recently i had a startup client who chooses a company name that some other company really liked and they offered a big bag with money for that name but the startup had already set up their domain name on the active directory with windows server 2012 r2 essentials experience role. For example when corporate underwent merger or takeover change of company name wanted to match ad domain name with internet fqdn fully. How to change computer name in windows server 2012.

You can configure a windows server 2012 r2 server to host a domain and when the configuration completes the server is called a domain controller. Provide host name and click ok. We will be presuming the current server name is wrongname domain local and the new name will be server domain local please change these to suit your current situation.

Currently we are upgrading our dcs from 2008 r2 to 2012 r2. There are application server that is using our dc s as dns most of it are pointing to ip address and some are pointing to the host name of the dc. In a windows server 2012 domain you don t have to separately install rendom utility.

In this post we ll learn the steps to rename windows server 2012 r2. A domain controller serves many purposes but is used primarily for user logon management organization through security groups and centralized management of policies and properties on computers. To ensure proper name is assign we need to rename computer.

When we install windows server 2012 it assigns alpha numeric name. How to rename a domain in windows 2012 server. If you have a dhcp server then you can skip this step.

This tools gets installed as part of active directory domain services role when you promote a server to the dc role. But i m not sure if changing the hostname of our domain controller may cause any issues. In this article i have showed the steps which are used to configure dns server on windows server 2012 r2.