Renaming netbios name on Server 2012 Essentials

Kidge

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I've recently installed and set up Server 2012 Essentials on my microserver however just noticed I missed a letter in the spelling of what I wanted as the computer name.

When I tried to change this the button is greyed out and it states that "the identification of the computer cannot be changed because: - The Certification Authority Service is installed on this computer"

Is there any way I can rename the machine without having to remove roles and then re-add?
 
You need to remove and re-add the Certificate Authority role -- if not, you will have problems for the rest of time as the root certificate was issued with the old name. Since you only installed this the other day, I would recommend re-installing from scratch.
 
Yep, correct haha I did this and everything just threw up errors so I'm reinstalling now. Just means I'll have to copy data and download updates again.

At least I can learn from my mistakes i guess.
 
rotor, do you have any idea how to add the domain name corp.<domain>.com on server 2012 essentials?

It forces you to use corp.<domain>.local which MS even say is bad practice as .local is a TLD now.

I've tried this in powershell during setup:

$cred = Get-Credential –UserName Tempadmin –Message "Please specify the password for your new administrator account."

Start-WssConfigurationService -CompanyName "Foo" -computername foo -DNSname "foo.lan" -NetBiosName "foo" -NewAdminCredential $cred -Setting All

but it gave me the error Start-WssConfigurationService is not a cmdlet, yet MS say it is:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn376323.aspx
 
I've got to do the same thing and am plucking up the courage to re-install.

Two standalone servers, both running essentials 2012. One was running both CCTV and monitoring but it's not up to it, so now a different one is runninf CCTV and I want the old one (N54L) to just run monitoring - but it's called CCTV.
 
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