Hi guys !!
This situation is a bit contrived.
Our PDC was shut down.
One of our two BDC’s was promoted to PDC.
We now have One PDC and One BDC online.
Can the PDC be demoted offline ?
Bringing it back online and trying to promote the current active BDC, thereby demoting both of the PDC’s, doesn’t work. It only demotes the currently active PDC.
The Netlogon sevice hasn’t started (understandably) on the old PDC as the new PDC stops that service from starting.
Oh, and one more thing. I have absent- mindedly renamed the darned thing (old PDC) when I couldn’t demote it immediately, so I may to have to hack the registry or what not.
I can’t see any options left to demote this Server and I don’t want to have to rebuild it !
Anyone got any ideas.
Thanks in advance,
Peter
