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Rename DC to preserve OLD Name and IP address

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AlanLaPietra
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Oct 07, 2019
One of the needs that arise during an Active Directory upgrade is to have to rename the new Domain Controllers with the Name and IP of the old ones. This should be avoided, application owners should ...
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Manas_Dash
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Jul 18, 2021

Dear Microsoft Community,

I found a spelling mistake on output of this below command:

C:\> netdom computername <NewComputerName> /remove:<OldComputerName>

Successfully removed oldname.contoso.com as an alternamte name for the computer.

 

It might be "alternate".