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Thanks Allesandro. &nbsp;I will post again if I run into obstacles along the way. &nbsp;I had read the mizitech post prior to posting on here. I found the varonis link very insightful as well as your advice about running this through VM to verify &quot;it works&quot; prior to doing the physical change.<br />
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I had planned on keeping a full backup available to restore to in case of any issues, but running a lab environment first is a good idea.<br />
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Thanks!
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Thanks Allesandro.  I will post again if I run into obstacles along the way.  I had read the mizitech post prior to posting on here. I found the varonis link very insightful as well as your advice about running this through VM to verify "it works" prior to doing the physical change.

I had planned on keeping a full backup available to restore to in case of any issues, but running a lab environment first is a good idea.

Thanks!

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We are planning to rename our Windows Server 2012 domain from &quot;12345.local&quot; to &quot;ABCDE.local&quot;<br />
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From what I see, the way to proceed is using the RENDOM utility. &nbsp;I see that after the new domain is created and server is restarted, I can run the following commands to fix the group policies:<br />
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gpfixup /olddns:12345.local /newdns:ABCDE.local<br />
gpfixup /oldnb:12345-dc /newnb:ABCDE<br />
rendom /clean<br />
rendom /end<br />
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But I am unsure there are any commands to reassign users and shared drives to the new domain? &nbsp;I want to ensure a clean move from one domain to the other and want to take any and all precautions so that we don't have any crashes or loss of data in the process.<br />
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Thanks in advance for your help!
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We are planning to rename our Windows Server 2012 domain from "12345.local" to "ABCDE.local"

From what I see, the way to proceed is using the RENDOM utility.  I see that after the new domain is created and server is restarted, I can run the following commands to fix the group policies:

gpfixup /olddns:12345.local /newdns:ABCDE.local
gpfixup /oldnb:12345-dc /newnb:ABCDE
rendom /clean
rendom /end

But I am unsure there are any commands to reassign users and shared drives to the new domain?  I want to ensure a clean move from one domain to the other and want to take any and all precautions so that we don't have any crashes or loss of data in the process.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Will users and shares need to be updated/recreated after renaming my domain in Windows Server 2012?

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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