Re: Errors after renaming administrator

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I have never had to restart, only log-off/log-on for the change to work.

It has been a while so I don't remember all of the little details.


"C_O" <noemailacceptedhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <wedor> wrote in message news:OfpMcWiVFHA.2684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Try searching "Help and Support" on your SBS using this phrase, rename
>> the
>> Administrator account using Group Policy Management Console
>
> Thanks wedor that is exactly what I was looking for. However the article
> was
> not entirely accurate. Where it says "type in the domain name" for the new
> forest it is not clear which domain name: "domain" or "domain.local". This
> can be scary, since there can be only one forest and one doesn't know how
> bad things work if trying to add a second one inadvertently. It turns out
> that it will automatically correct if you only put in "domain" and change
> it
> to "domain.local". Whew.
> The other inaccuracy is that it says you have to log off and log back on
> after the change. That was not enough. I had to restart, not just log off
> and log back on, for the change to take effect.
> Anyway, in the grand scheme of things these are just nits.
> Now I'll let it run a while to see if the errors no longer occur...
> Thanks again.
>
> --C_O
>
>


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