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Hi,<br />
&nbsp; We have RIS running on Windows server 2003 network. We have Active Directory where we have computer accounts from A-Z. RIS is installing image with randomly generated computer names. When I try to change the name of computer let us say computer B it gives the error that account already exist. Actually computer B is the computer on which I am installing image. <br />
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I do not see any problem of changing name when I install O/S using windows XP CD on computer B. <br />
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Any idea whre we need to confugre RIS to allow us to chnage computer name?<br />
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Thank You<br />
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Hi,
  We have RIS running on Windows server 2003 network. We have Active Directory where we have computer accounts from A-Z. RIS is installing image with randomly generated computer names. When I try to change the name of computer let us say computer B it gives the error that account already exist. Actually computer B is the computer on which I am installing image. 

I do not see any problem of changing name when I install O/S using windows XP CD on computer B. 

Any idea whre we need to confugre RIS to allow us to chnage computer name?

Thank You



Changing Computer Name

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).