I hope this will help many users Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Demoting Domain Controller Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 6 months ago. Active 8 years, 9 months ago.
Viewed 40k times. Improve this question. George George 4 4 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Of course, the one time you run into an unexpected issue or something goes horribly wrong, would be the one time you don't have anyone around who knows AD well enough to pull your collective butts out of the fire How many DCs do you have? Two, this one would have been a third one temporary anyway , the plan was to demote one of the other two.
There was a long story behind why, but we decided to decommission this one instead. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Once there, click on Manage. Then, click on Remove tools and Features. Next, a list of installed roles will be displayed.
Please uncheck the box for Active Directory Domain Services. A warning window will then be displayed showing all the features to be removed. Please confirm the task. The following table confirms the user credentials. Also, check the box to force the removal of the domain controller. You will then see a summary of the roles hosted on the domain controller. Please check the box to proceed with the removal.
This is a necessary administrative task at some point for the server. Which is quicker and easier to 'recover' from if major issues ensue? Turning off the original is by far the easier option compared to demoting as a test to see if there are any issues.
Where DCs' are concerened I always take the least risk option - build a new one, move the roles, change the DNS settings on everything including DHCP scopes to point to the new one then power off the old one. Once happy it's OK, power it up then demote. I am assuming I need to migrate these over to the new DC as I don't see them listed there. I'm quite certain these share folders actually 'exist' on a different server altogether, but that the DC needs to know about them in order to let people easily map them.
Yes you'll need to move those dfs roots across too if you're using the dfs namespace in your organisation. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Popular Topics in Windows Server.
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Learn More ». If everything works well, you can remove the 2 DCs safely. Error to join the domain : the specified network name is no longer available.
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