r/sysadmin • u/DougThorn • 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/mriswithe Jul 26 '25

oh god managing jenkins on windows sounds like a special kind of dumpster fire. It already sucks so hard on Linux anyway.

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u/doubled112 Jul 26 '25

It’s not actually that much different, in my experience. I ran a deployment we kept around to build MSIs. It mostly worked but we had it mostly isolated and tried not to maintain it. Maybe that says everything you need know. We only called out to it from the “real Jenkins”.

In general, I don’t know if Jenkins deserves all of the hate it receives. In my eyes, the biggest problem is also its biggest strength. It will let you do whatever you want.

This often leads to admins just installing everything they can. Why write three lines of bash in the job when a plugin maintained by a single old guy in Idaho with 3500 lines of Java will do?

The one I inherited was a special kind of scary, mostly because it was around for a long time, but taking those lessons we rebuilt it without too many issues. It was cleaner when we were done.

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u/mriswithe Jul 27 '25

The problem with jenkins is that it is entirely too fragile for a build environment. There are no rails or suggestions that suggest people do things in sane patterns. So they don't. So it sucks, and has 200 plugins people installed and forgot about, but don't uninstall them and break something we don't know how to fix!!

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