Temporary Demotion of Domain Controller
the cause: have issue new client.... former used evaluation licenses in production environment when setting office. took on contract , had customer comply purchasing proper licenses. able apply purchased licenses evaluation servers, using dism; however, there 1 last server needs converted appropriate license , first domain controller in domain! the objective: objective temporarily demote dc, named " vmdc ", long enough use dism apply appropriate license, , promote again. what i've done: i've transferred fsmo roles , configured clients receive dns server named, " server1 ". when run query fsmo, following.... ps c:\users\administrator> netdom query fsmo schema master server1.corp.zagglobal.com domain naming master vmdc.corp.zagglobal.com pdc server1.corp.zagglobal.com rid pool manager ...