Chapter 9. Promoting and Demoting a Domain Controller (DC)

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Promoting a DC with dcpromo

• Demoting a DC with dcpromo

• Using dcpromo with an unattend file

• Promoting a DC to an RODC with an existing account

• Using dcpromo to install from media

• Forcing removal of Active Directory

Tip

You should be familiar with dcpromo commands and capabilities when preparing for the 70-640 and 70-647 exams.

Promoting a DC with dcpromo

You use the dcpromo wizard to promote a Windows Server 2008 server to a domain controller (DC). The dcpromo wizard is a rich wizard that enables you to promote a server to a DC. The following steps show how to run dcpromo to promote a server ...

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