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.

A networking problem or a failure to communicate with a DNS server or the other domain controllers can all cause the demotion process to fail. Likewise, you may not always have a chance to demote ...

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 ...