{"id":3959,"date":"2023-05-31T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/can-i-reuse-an-existing-ad-computer-object-for-a-redployment\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:39:55","slug":"can-i-reuse-an-existing-ad-computer-object-for-a-redployment","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/can-i-reuse-an-existing-ad-computer-object-for-a-redployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I reuse an existing AD computer object for a redployment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are upgrading one of our machines from 2012 to Server 2019.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to shut down the old machine and just domain join the new machine (both have the same name).<\/p>\n<p>Will that be a problem or will the old Computer Object in AD just accept the new server?<\/p>\n<p>In case I have to remove the old server first &#8211; what happens to GPOs \/ DNS and stuff where that Computer Account was linked? A new computer account will have a new sid right? So I&#8217;d have to know where to put it before I do those steps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","question-category":[12],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-active-directory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can I reuse an existing AD computer object for a redployment? - WindowsTechno Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/can-i-reuse-an-existing-ad-computer-object-for-a-redployment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can I reuse an existing AD computer object for a redployment? - WindowsTechno Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are upgrading one of our machines from 2012 to Server 2019. 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