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Rename PC on SBS03

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by demosthanese 1 view

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I've got a computer on my network named after a former employee. When i set it up, i somehow missed it, and now my boss gets mad every time she sees the name lol. So i need to know if i can rename that pc w/o the new girl losing all her work. Is it just a matter of migrating that 'documents and settings' folder over after the rename or am i thinking about this in the wrong way? Ideally it would be something i could do from the server w/o having to interrupt her at all.

Thanks in advance.

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by bart777

Just sit at her deak logged in as a domain admin and rename the PC. This will register the name chage with AD on the SBS and after a reboot the boss will no longer see that old machine name.
I am, of course, assuming that this PC is part of the SBS domain and the user is logging in with a domain accout. When the user logs back in it won't matter what the machine name is. She will see the same profile she had before.

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