i am moving to a new file server under Server 2008 Standard 32bit edition. I will refer to the older server as just "server", the new one i named as server2.

i have updated server2 and patched it. I have also joined the domain as member server and set up the raid structure. I have also moved the data over to the right spot. BUT here is what i am not 100% sure on.

The company wants to keep the old name of "server", i did not want to do that and was thinking of just making a cname alias in AD DNS forward lookup zone to point to the new ip address of server2 but you can reference it as server. In order to do the alias i would naturally remove or rename the old server or just unjoin it from the domain altogether.

I have read that you can just rename a computer to a previous name in AD as long as you have unjoined and removed it from the appropirate list under Active Directory? Can i just rename a server that is a member server in a domain? Do i have to change the sid or run newsid?

Just looking for some best practices.
thanks in advance.
gd


Question: why is 'child of' modifier scaling my bone?
Answer: A child of constraint is the same as parenting an object, when you move the parent the child also moves, scale the parent and the child also scales.

By using the constraint instead of direct parenting you can control some of this behaviour. By turning off the scale options you can stop the lightsaber scaling with your armature.



This does highlight one point though, you have an armature that is scaled, you most likely scaled the armature while in object mode to get it to fit your model. Having an armature that is scaled can cause odd behaviour like this at times so you may want to apply the scale to your armature by pressing CtrlA and choosing scale while in object mode.