We have two Windows servers: svr-1 (running w2K) and svr-2 (running w2k3). svr-1 is already in domain IT and svr-2 is not.
We now want to join svr-2 to domain IT under the same computer account svr-1 but without first deleting the computer account. In other words, we want to keep the computer account svr-1 in AD but join a different server (different OS) under it.
We have done the following:
1) take svr-1 off the network.
2) Reset Account svr-1 thru AD of users and computers
3) Log in local admin and Rename svr-2 to svr-1 and try to join domain IT.
But we got an error saying svr-1 already exists and the server joined the domain using its old name svr-2. But we have already Reset the account svr-1!
Did we do anything wrong? Any clue, please? Thanks.