Questions tagged [rename]
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Can I rename a Windows failover cluster virtual network name AD object
I have a new Windows 2019 Failover Cluster. I enabled the Automatic Cluster Aware Update feature, and this is functioning correctly. It created a Computer object in AD called CAUBORG6cx. Am I able ...
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Rename Files in Folders
I am using windows server 2016 and I am facing a problem.
We have been making some changes and I am now in need of having a folder that whenever a file(in this case a specific type (.msg)) is placed ...
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AD domain rename problems, can't add server of the same name
I have inherited an active directory domain controller, and after adding a number of servers I found that I couldn't add a server with a specific name.
I since found out the admin who built the ...
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WMI E_ACCESSDENIED errors when attempting to remotely rename computer via PowerShell
I am trying to run a script to rename remote computers via PowerShell. The problem I'm running into is that I'm getting the following error:
Rename-Computer : Cannot establish the WMI connection to ...
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What impact would a domain rename have on Azure AD sync?
We have a local AD domain which syncs up to Azure. We recently decided we want to rename this domain and I am unsure what impact this will have on Azure. The domain rename doesn't change the GUID, so ...
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How to set if a computer in AD is assigned to a particular user?
We have computers that are renamed every time a new employee shows up. This causes a lot of work unnecessary work for the IT department. Now while it isn't always true 100% of the time that each ...
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Rename NTFS file to eliminate multiple periods via batch
I at wits end trying to rename NTFS files that have technically legal, but problematic multiple periods in my Windows 2012 Server share
Files are dropped in a share that look like this:
THIS.IS.THE....
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Cannot rename new folders in a server folder
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Windows 7 SP1 - Folder located on server, normally accessed via drive letter
There is one folder on the network where all users have modify rights. Suddenly people are ...
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renaming hard drives (sdc to sdb) on the fly
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
kernel: [2761026.198796] ata2: soft resetting link
kernel: [2761031.226669] ata2.00: disabled
kernel: [2761031.226720] ata2: EH complete
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Local references to old server name remain after Windows 2003 server rename
I have a standalone Win 2003 server with Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS3) running on it. I had to rename the server and I had bunch of problems resulting from this. Note that the server is not in AD ...
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batch folder rename on macos / linux
I have 500+ folders which are named with this pattern:
May 2020
The folders contain photos, but for some reason the photos creation date in the meta is wrong, or was overwritten. The correct ...
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Rename folder that contains opened files in a Windows server shared resource
This is a Windows 2012 Cluster with a File server role.
I'm trying to rename a folder that contains several files and other folders that are in use by users and the OS says that:
Is it possible to ...
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Replace empty spaces with a zeros in file name
Not a coder but know the logic like understanding a language but not able to speak it. Environment is Windows server 2016.
Trying to write a .bat file to replace empty spaces with zeros '0' in a file ...
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Change Domain Name Forest Root
Forest Root Name is abc123.com
The only domain in the forest is
abc123.com
I want to add a new Domain called newxyz.com as a Tree Domain, non-contiguous domain.
Using a 2way transitive trust I would ...
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Recurse into subdirectories and prefix all files with the name of its holding directory
I have files in subdirectories A, B, C
Each directory has files of various names, lets say 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt in each although the names are not relevant as such.
I want to run a bash shell script ...
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Unable to rename SCCM asset
Simply put, I delete the asset from SCCM but when I go to reimage the machine I cannot rename. After I choose the image the task sequence begins without prompting for a machine name. What am I missing ...
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Heroku rename and and redirect from old URL
I have a rails app running on Heroku and I want to rename it. This seems easy enough, but I also have users whom I want to redirect to the new URL if the visit the old one.
I suppose one way to do ...
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the file is open in IIS Worker Process
I have a WCF service hosted on IIS7. I am using source control tool (IBM RTC) to manage code base and continuous deployment on our testing server.
but my deployment is failing because IIS has acquired ...
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Run Bash Script Another Server
I want to run command one by one, for change the names of the directories on the server.
When I run script, directories renamed in server 1. But, directories are not found in server 2.
What the ...
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PowerShell won't rename an export .csv file
I am trying to rename the file export.csv to the $name but with a .csv extension instead of .file. The output is still $name.file.
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$name = Read-Host "Enter Group Name"
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Rename subfolder directories Windows 2008 R2
Just trying to work out a way to rename some sub folders and could do with some help.
Basically, When our staff write documentation for a proposal, they create a folder with the project name. When ...
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Renaming domain (2008 R2) with SharePoint 2010
Does anyone have clear steps how to approach SharePoint 2010 when renaming domain. We need to rename single labeled domain before introducing Exchange 2010 and many other stuff in our network.
What ...
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Windows Server 2019 - renaming files with some naming convention
We received a ton of files from our sponsor and the files are all formatted like this
[ABCD] Title - Id - Description [RS][x264][CHKSUM].txt
I could manually rename one at a time but there are more ...
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How to rename multiple files by adding word from that file?
I have files :
file name: report_2020-10-13-17-11.txt
Contain :
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this report was prepared by=John
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file name: report_2020-10-13-17-12.txt
Contain :
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this report was prepared by=Doe
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