40 Change The Domain Netbios Name Update

I am looking at technet articles and see that the netbios domain can be changed.

Change the domain netbios name. Another techie says that we can do this during the ad upgrade. Currently we have a netbios domain name of zxytest. However renaming of the netbios domain name is not supported in any version of exchange server.

What is the best way to make the change. The netbios name can be changed in the windows system properties window in any version of the operating system. Easier and safer perhaps but still a fair bit of work depending on the size of your domain.

How do i change domain netbios name in my environment. The netbios domain name is unfortunately rather deeply embedded in ad especially on the security authentication side. Change your domain to.

Domain controller are running in windows 2012 r2 and ms exchange 2010 also running the domain infrastructure. Using domain rename you cannot only change the name of a domain but you can change the structure of the domain hierarchy and change the parent of a domain or move a domain residing in one domain tree to another domain tree. I think we have to do this before the upgrade.

We would like to change the netbios domain name to abc. But be aware that once you have changed it to uppercase it will remain in lower case here. Nt4 st need to be changed to sf ad proposal domain details.

So the powershell command will give you the most reliable output. The netbios name is the unique value given to the computer. Existing domain details.