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Mastering Windows Server 2022 - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Windows Server 2022 - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634507
Pages 720 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
Profile icon Jordan Krause

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2022 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2022 3. Active Directory 4. DNS and DHCP 5. Group Policy 6. Certificates 7. Networking with Windows Server 2022 8. Remote Access 9. Hardening and Security 10. Server Core 11. PowerShell 12. Redundancy in Windows Server 2022 13. Containers 14. Hyper-V 15. Remote Desktop Services 16. Troubleshooting 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index
Appendix: Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

Demote an old Domain Controller

Creating new servers and turning them into Domain Controllers is technically known as promoting those servers to become Domain Controllers. This process is fairly straightforward, and easy to accomplish in a fresh environment without any history of changes or issues, such as inside a test lab. Now let’s cover one of the messier things that you may encounter as a server administrator, removing an old Domain Controller server. The process of removing a DC from your environment is known as demoting. Demoting a Domain Controller can be straightforward if the old server is online, or it can be a little convoluted if the old server has died, and you are now trying to remove all traces of it from the domain without being able to take the standard removal steps.

Demoting while the old server is still online

If you are removing an old Domain Controller and it is still online, the process is pretty painless. Log into that server, and accomplish the following...

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