After my January tip on automating the DCpromo process, I got a lot of e-mail asking for more specifics. Your wish being my command, of course, here’s the lowdown: You’ll start with a traditional ...

Good thing this is just my test network! I have a VM clone of my ancient WS 2008 R2 ("OldDC") running AD DS in a test network along with two spiffy new instances of WS 2022 (NewDC1 and NewDC2), both ...

I've not actually demoted that many machines so I'd appreciate a sanity check as I intend to do some maintenance this weekend. I have a DC that I need to demote, it's running AD integrated DNS and is ...

Picking up the pieces after a failed domain controller demotion Your email has been sent DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails?