From looking at things, it might be a Win7 difference on 2008R2 DC versus XP SP3 on the same DC. However, I've got some Win7 stations that lack the $ at the end of the Display name or lack a display ...

I need to take a running windows desktop box that's part of a domain, give it a new computer name, and then continue working on it (with the box having the new name), without having to reboot at all.

A hostname is a label assigned to a device (a host) on a network. It distinguishes one device from another on a specific network or over the internet. The hostname for a computer on a home network may ...

To understand why DNS failures can be so disruptive, it's helpful to know how the Domain Name System is constructed. The internet contains over 378 million registered domain names, far too many for a ...