September 20, 2012 at 11:31 am
Hi
I have some problem with renaming user logins. We changed our domain, and i want to change domain user logins. When i run: alter login [olddomain\user] with name = [newdomain\user] i get error "The name change cannot be performed because the SID of the new name does not match the old SID of the principal". I tried to install SP2, but still error remains.
How can I resolve this? Or is there any other way to change domain user logins?
P.S server is 2008R2 SP2
September 20, 2012 at 11:42 am
You may need to drop and recreate.
September 20, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Its not best solution for me. Cant I just rename existing logins? Why this error appears?
September 21, 2012 at 1:53 am
siraken (9/20/2012)
"The name change cannot be performed because the SID of the new name does not match the old SID of the principal". I tried to install SP2, but still error remains.
The message is quite descriptive and no amount of SP installs will cure this.
The only way you could have done this would have been to migrate the users accounts between domains, preserving the assigned SIDs. You'll need to drop and re create
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