An administrator needs to temporarily change the host name of a computer that is on the company's domain. Which of the following would be the BEST way to accomplish this and still maintain access to…

Leaving the domain and joining a workgroup before renaming severs the trust relationship cleanly, preventing stale Kerberos tickets or name conflicts in Active Directory. Renaming the PC while in a workgroup and then rejoining the domain allows the domain to register the new name correctly, ensuring roaming profile paths stored on the server remain accessible under the correct account. This sequence avoids broken computer account trust that would block profile share access.

Changing the computer name while it is still domain-joined before removing it from the domain can cause Kerberos authentication errors and orphaned computer accounts in AD, disrupting profile share access.

Rejoining the domain before renaming defeats the purpose, as the computer object in AD will still reflect the old name until another rejoin occurs, causing a mismatch that can break roaming profile paths.

Renaming the PC while still joined to the domain without first leaving it can cause computer account trust failures that prevent the machine from authenticating to the domain and accessing profile shares.