Howto rename my Domain Single MOSS VPC

Hi,

Here again!.

Last year I have been pretty busy with many MOSS projects, so I will start again with SharePoint Technologies :)

As I usually create VPC, I end up with different customer demo machines. Today I wanted to use one of them, but I thought if it was possible to change domain name/computer name in order to map other customer name.

My environment was a Single Server install (DC+Standalone server:Windows R2 2003 Server) of MOSS 2007 with english+spanish language pack.

The steps I followed were:

Raise the functional level of the DC and forest to Windows 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322692/
Download the Windows server 2003 Active Directory Domain Rename Tools http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/winsrvr/domainrename.mspx
Read the doc ;)
install de rename tools, and use rendom with each step in the help.

/list /upload /prepare /execute
after execute the server rebooted and IIS started crashing.
/end (in order to do the unfreezing) and IIS worked again

Then run gpfixup (as part of the rename tools)
/clean

Finally, I wanted to change the computer name. So I used netdom tool http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/460e3705-9e5d-4f9b-a139-44341090cfd41033.mspx?mfr=true

netdom computername /add
netdom computername /makeprimary
restart
netdom computername /remove

As the server had DNS Service, a change in the configure entries was necessary too (including a FQDN that resolves to the server).

After this changes, I needed to change:

Execute stsadm -o renameserver option
restart
review services on the server and SSP properties
check site collection admin
In the User Profile and Properties->View Import Connections Section in SSP, delete the existing and create a new one (default values).
MySite default uri
Alternate access mapping

Cheers!

P.S.

If you somehow run /clean before doing the gpfixup, you can use the GPMC http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx to fix the problem.

Delete the link pointing to the old domain and create a new one (Linked Group Policy Objects)

[I tried the other steps in a VPC, and didn't work, so I tried the dcgpofix tool too and reboot with this in mind]

MOSS, VPC, DC, GPMC, SSP