Procedure "Change the FQDN" from manual doesn't work

Worked here, but that wasn’t easy. Take care :

  • File server module was removed somewhere in the procedure, probably at step 1. Dunno why.
  • It has to be reinstalled BEFORE reinstalling the AD. I had to retry some times to get AD and File server installed correctly.
  • Password policy was reset to “Strong password required” at some point
  • Just in case somebody wonders : Groups have to be restored AFTER users.
  • Permissions were lost on shared files, I had to “Reset Permissions”
  • All password were wrong after import, maybe because at some point (after having exported the user.tsv file) I did a yum update for some bad reason.

All in all, it might be easier to reinstall completely to change the FQDN because this change is really huge and currently error prone.

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