Hostname changer with AD svn 5463 client 9.7

[Joe Schmitt]

@Hanz That key is only updated on windows XP. There are multiple keys that are changed, and the one key failing shouldn’t affect any renaming (That registry key has always failed since the legacy client and up).

Is the error that the host is not renaming? What is the client failing to do?

[Hanz]

@Jbob Interact with AD, the client successfully renames the host, but AD still lists it as the original hostname. It literally does not remove hostname from AD and create new host within AD. I’ve only tried this with the OU left blanked hoping the host would be removed and then re-added in the default “computers” OU

[Joe Schmitt]

@Hanz

The problem seems to be with:

 11/22/2015 10:42 AM HostnameChanger Unregistering computer
 11/22/2015 10:42 AM HostnameChanger Removing host from active directory
 11/22/2015 10:42 AM HostnameChanger ERROR: Required Domain information is missing

I’ll look into it.

[Hanz]

@Jbob does every host need the correct individual OU assignment to be removed correctly, or does it perform a “search through AD” ?

[Joe Schmitt]

@Hanz OU does not matter. All the client needs is the username and password to leave.

[Tom Elliott]

@Hanz Do you have the host joining a specific OU as a part of the domain join?

[Joe Schmitt]

Problem solved. I teamviewered in and saw that the AD options were disabled. So the host never got the needed ad user/password. (This should be resolved in a patch @Tom-Elliott is working on).

[Hanz]

@Jbob

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 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Client-Info Version: 0.9.7
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Running...
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.72.3.50/fog/service/servicemodule-active.php?moduleid=hostnamechanger&mac=08:00:27:FF:A3:9E||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService=1
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Middleware::Communication Response: Success
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.72.3.50/fog/service/hostname.php?moduleid=hostnamechanger&mac=08:00:27:FF:A3:9E||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService=1
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Middleware::Communication Response: Success
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Checking Hostname
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Renaming host to SYSPREP-TEST2
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Unregistering computer
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Removing host from active directory
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger The machine is not currently joined to a domain, code =  2692
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM HostnameChanger Updating registry
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM RegistryHandler ERROR: Could not set SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ActiveComputerNameComputerName
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM RegistryHandler ERROR: Cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key.

 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Power Creating shutdown command in 60 seconds
 11/22/2015 5:04 PM Bus {
  "channel": "Power",
  "data": "{\r\n  \"action\": \"request\",\r\n  \"period\": 60,\r\n  \"options\": 2,\r\n  \"command\": \"/r /c \\\"FOG needs to rename your computer\\\" /t 0\",\r\n  \"message\": \"This computer needs to perform maintenance.\"\r\n}"
}

booted to local login after reboot then this was in log… after disabling the “uninstall when out of scope of management”.

[Hanz]

@Tom-Elliott no I left it as default which should be “computers” correct ?

[Tom Elliott]

Please update to the latest and let me know if all is working okay?

[Hanz]

@Tom-Elliott Didn’t have “join domain after image task” checked under host, and apparently didn’t allow enough reboots ( 2 by fogservice) for it to re-domain itself with new name. **Also had to make sure the gpo package (which I use to push client) was NOT set to “uninstall package when no longer managed”.