Renaming a Domain Controller or a Whole Domain
No matter how carefully you choose a naming convention on your network, sooner or later you wish you named one or more areas of the network differently. Maybe the division has had a major name change, or you consolidated all your West Coast operations into your Oakland office, but there are still compelling security reasons why you don’t want to consolidate domains, at least not yet. Or maybe, with all the planning you did, you still made an essential mistake in the naming of your domain controllers and you’d really like to fix it.
In a Windows 2000 domain or forest, there wasn’t a whole lot you could do about it without incurring substantial pain. A domain really couldn’t be renamed or moved around ...
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