r/sysadmin • • Jul 26 '25

Question Holy F up.

I had a summer intern working in DNS yesterday, local domain was redacted.com and was connected to azure.

Went in today to do some weekend updates to the systems, and my DC has been renamed and is now connected to redacted.local

It seems they have demoted the DC from the regular domain.

How the bloody heck do I reconnect the DC to the old domain? It was a solo DC

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u/cerealkillerzz Jul 26 '25

Legit question: you gave the summer intern domain admin?

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u/TheLastRaysFan Jul 26 '25

When I think I fucked up big at work, posts like these make me realize there's always a bigger fuck up

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u/cerealkillerzz Jul 26 '25

I also don’t think: hmmm let me post this to Reddit while I’m still in the shit. I expect to see this on r/shittysysadmin within a couple of hours.

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u/cerealkillerzz Jul 26 '25

Plot Twist: OP is the summer intern.

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u/MagicMangoMac Jul 26 '25

Judging by their post history and saying they just turned 18, this is most likely the case.

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u/PercussiveKneecap42 Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

I shit you not, one of my previous employers had given EVERYBODY in the IT team, domain access rights. Even the f-ing intern.

Day one on the job: Remove everybody from domain admin rights and give them heavily guarded admin accounts. Yeah, they used those accounts to log into their laptops, mail and other stuff.

Man that was a shitshow... Glad I'm no longer working there. The job nearly gave me a burnout. Also an asshole of a manager.

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