A. I recently had a client in the middle of a domain migration and started to upgrade some Vista machines to SP1. After migrating the SP1 machines to the new domain, the computers couldn’t log on, and the screen displayed the error message The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship.. This is usually caused by Vista SP1's security changes and the computer DNS suffix not matching the new domain name. To match a computer's DNS suffix to the new domain name, add the workstation's Service Principal Name (SPN) in Active Directory (AD) using the following steps:
To make the change for an entire domain, use the following steps:
Q. Why do I get logon errors while I migrate Windows Vista SP1 boxes to a new domain?
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