I have three DCs. Two physical. One virtual (Hyper-V virtual machine). All three are 2008 R2. Since I have two physical DCs and to keep server count down I decided to dcpromo the virtual DC. It ...

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.