1. Netdom can rename workstations remotely without removing/rejoining to domain. 2. Ghost Console, then netdom. Or run a script to map mac addresses to client name and ip then run netdom on each ip. Or.....
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Stabl Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance Summer is now in full swing and its time for a bit of AD maintenance. This is the school district's first year of running AD successfully and now we are going to make some changes to the network, mostly client changes. All clients are currently joined to AD and we want to create a ghost image and re-image all the clients so they are fresh for the upcoming year. The main change is going to be the name of the computers, the naming scheme has changed so that we can better identify computers. Here are some questions: 1. I don't want to touch each computer to manually remove it from AD. Is there any problems just deleting those computer accounts from AD? 2. Any suggestions on using ghost to image computers, last year we had to touch each machine by hand to join it to AD. Is there a better way? 3. I have just discoved the aging/scavaging features of DNS after I deleted all client records there. 4. Any good websites on maintenance? I am fairly new to all this bear with me. Thanks Jake -- Jacob Stabl Network Engineer Plain Local Schools http://eagle.stark.k12.oh.us Work: 330.492.3500 x.383 Cell: 330.495.7243 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
