How To Change Netbios Name In Windows Server 2016

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How to change the domain NetBIOS proper noun only

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• i accept windows server 2012R2 standard running as a Domain Controller. the dns domain is: abc.local and the netbios name of that domain is abc.

  i need to change ***only the netbios proper name of that domain***

  how can i achieve that goal?

  Thanks

  Guy

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• • Marked as answer by guy3145 Friday, Jan 9, 2015 iv:08 PM

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• • Marked as answer by guy3145 Friday, January 9, 2015 iv:08 PM

• BTW, if y'all can't tell from the above links... This is a HUGE pain and near people don't practice information technology.

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  Mike Crowley | MVP
  My Blog -- Planet Technologies

  

• In 100% agreement with Mike.  Lots of potential for all sorts of things breaking.  If you lot plan to become ahead with this, be sure you lot have a lab surround that closely mirrors your production environment.  By that I mean that the lab has about (better to take all) the product applications installed.  Try your rename in the lab to come across how many of those applications break and so figure out how to fix it.  Trying to exercise this in production turns your production environment into a huge lab and could take business critical applications out of product until you figure out how to fix the problem by either some sort of hack/patch or a re-installation.

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  . : | : . : | : . tim

  • Proposed as respond past Susie Long Mon, January 12, 2015 3:24 AM

• thank you everybody for the information, this test is for a lab environment

• I wanted to down vote this, both links are cleaved...

• The original question was about changing *but* the NetBios proper noun, is this really that complicated?

  In my case, I originally proper name my DC every bit the name that ended upwards beingness wanted for the netbios proper noun.  The DOMAIN proper noun itself is good (ends with .local - this is only for a test-bed).  I have already changed the DC name to not conflict.

  This wasn't that complicated

  1. rendom /list
     (edit the netbios name)
  2. rendom /upload
  3. rendom /set up
  4. rendom /execute
     (will reboot)
  5. rendom /end

  I was somewhat cavalier with it, because I would take simply rebuilt information technology if I had an issue, just this did what I needed and was a lot simpler than trying to start over.

  For a production AD, you will evidently want to read and understand everything quite thoroughly.

  • Edited by msdn.dweaver Mon, December 17, 2018 1:40 AM

• You responded to a mail service that is well-nigh four years old. Information technology is not surprising that a reference made that long ago may no longer be.  Even so, the response marked every bit the answer for the original mail is however valid.

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  tim

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