I’m involved in a lot of network migrations (client/servers).
Usually, migrating the server isn’t that difficult. However, the software on the clients can be tricky. There can be a lot of registry keys, ini files or all sort of pointers pointing to the old servername.
There’s one sneaky trick that makes it all a lot easyer!
- Raise your domain funtional level to 2003.
- Download and install the latest Support Tools
- Use netdom to add a server alias, e.g.
netdom computername newserver /add:oldserver.domain.local
- Import this regfile:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters] "DisableStrictNameChecking"=dword:00000001