There are scenarios in which we need to migrate from one domain to another and can't afford to lose all the historical data of our managed machines. In this recipe, we will look at how to migrate the VCM server from an old domain to a new domain.
Make sure that the network and DNS (forward and reverse) is correct for the VCM Collector server. Add the VCM Collector to the new domain and create or identify the domain account that you want to use, as described in Service accounts subsection under the Understanding the requirements of VCM recipe in Chapter 1, Installing VCM.
To change VCM service accounts to run under a different domain account, follow these steps:
On the VCM database server, run the following SQL update queries against the core VCM database. Make the appropriate name substitutions:
DECLARE @collector_service_account NVARCHAR(128) SET @collector_service_account = N'domain-name\account-name' ...