Are there any issues with demoting a domain controller and making it a member server? I have printers on a DC that I want to separate out so I can't remove the machine totally. 1. Migrate all FSMO ...

Demote Domain Controller, FSMO Problems. Thread starter calhoun; Start date Dec 1, 2008; ... DC1 is out of sync and not synchronizing with the other domain controller.

One note of caution: If the domain controller still appears in the Domain Controllers container after the DCPROMO demotion appears to have succeeded, verify that replication is functional and that ...

The first step in the process is to demote a domain controller. Once upon a time, this meant running the DCPromo utility, but that isn't really an option any more.

Things became so problematic that Microsoft decided to give us a new feature in Windows Server 2003 called "forced demotion." This feature is really meant to be used as a last resort when you are ...

Don't P2V that last domain controller -- rebuild it instead. The physical to virtual (P2V) process is great, but not for DCs. Technically, there are ways to do it, especially with the manageable ...