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Removing a DC from active directory

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by jeff anderson

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When I try to DCPromo to remove a DC that is giving us fits(Problem Server), it wont complete the transaction. It gets to the point of restarting services and then I get a window that says the operation failed because the attempt to configure the machine account "problem server" on server "good server" failed. Access denied

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by joseph moore

Did you remove all FSMO roles from this DC? You need to make sure the DC is NOT a PDC Emulator, or Schema MAster, or Global Catalogue, or any of the other roles that exist, BEFORE you can remove it as a domain controller.
So, check out if it still has roles assigned to it. If so, then move the roles to another DC.
Then run DCPROMO.

hope this helps

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