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PS - sometimes you may need to reset email passwords and drive mappings. &nbsp;I normally do a login script to map the drives
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PS - sometimes you may need to reset email passwords and drive mappings.  I normally do a login script to map the drives

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I am reopening this question not because the solution is wrong, but because I am seeking a different solution.<br />
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The solution was rejected by management due to the amount of work required to transfer fifty client accounts.<br />
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It has been suggested that we should be able to add in the second DC to the existing domain and then adjust the domain so that the clients use the new DC before we remove the old one. Is that possible?
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I am reopening this question not because the solution is wrong, but because I am seeking a different solution.

The solution was rejected by management due to the amount of work required to transfer fifty client accounts.

It has been suggested that we should be able to add in the second DC to the existing domain and then adjust the domain so that the clients use the new DC before we remove the old one. Is that possible?

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I need to replace an SBS2011 DC with a Server 2012R2 DC and recreate the users accounts. Is there a way to preserve the locally stored settings on the client workstations? Will keeping the domain name work?<br />
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All clients are Windows 7. Mail not involved (DC is used as a file server only).
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I need to replace an SBS2011 DC with a Server 2012R2 DC and recreate the users accounts. Is there a way to preserve the locally stored settings on the client workstations? Will keeping the domain name work?

All clients are Windows 7. Mail not involved (DC is used as a file server only).

domain change preserve client machine accounts

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