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• Change the computer name while in the domain;
• netdom renamecomputer computername /newname:newcomputername /userd:domain\username /password:*
• Using an 8 tells the command to prompt you for the password.
• The command /userd is not a type-o.
• Change the name of a non domain computer;
• netdom renamecomputer computername /newname:newcomputername
• Add the computer to a domain
• netdom join computername /domain:domainname /userd:username password:*
• I had an issue where this command only worked if I used passwordd instead of password.  It also worked the other way one time.  Got me as to why.
• Remove the machine from the domain;
• netdom remove

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