i wonder if this is going to end up a long-winded post. i never intend for that to happen because somewhere i picked up that technical information should be succinct. however, when i started looking into this problem, it seemed like there just wasn’t good information on it. synopsis a user in your environment needs to have their machine reimaged. as a loyal IT citizen, you promptly do so by any manner that happens to be your favorite (e.g. mdt, swimage, ghost, etc). you bring up this machine as the same name. later on, you try to remotely manage the machine but realize that the ip it once had is different. you spin your wheels a bit trying to figure out why the new ip hasn’t registered in dns. upon reviewing the event log of the machine, you discover events that look eerily similar to these: Event Type: Warning Event Source: DnsApi Event Category: None Event ID: 11163 Date: 8/12/2008 Time: 5:32:32 PM User: N/A Computer: myComputer D