Can you use a Windows 7 machine as the RenDom.Exe "Control Station" ? If not, what happens if you run RenDom on the PDC? I do not have another machine running Windows Server to use as the "Control Station" I am trying to rename a domain on a Windows 2008-R2 PDC for a new domain that is not yet in production - but there has been extensive configuration and license activations, so I don't want to do a complete reinstall... Thanks!

Hi, Although I am not sure if it works on a Windows 7 machine, considering the importance and the complexity of a Domain Rename operation, I would suggest using a supported Server OS for the control station. Why not using a Server OS on a VM? You do not need to activate it to use as a Control Station. hth Turgay

According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816869(WS.10).aspx Operating system: The computer must be a member computer (not a domain controller) that is running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition or Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, or Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition or Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties,and confers no rights.

Yes, I had preveiously read the 'official' notes on TechNet - but I was looking to see if anyone had tried Windows 7. In the end, I took Turgay's advice and installed an unactivated copy of Server 2008 and used that for the process.Brian