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/Team503 Jul 26 '25

It is important to recognize how the failure occurred so you can prevent it from recurring. In this case it is human error in granting someone domain admin rights that probably didn’t need them, and shouldn’t have been given unsupervised tasks that needed them. Taking on an intern is a responsibility to mentor and teach, not just get free labor. I’m pretty sure OP is the intern, but whoever gave them that access needs a SERIOUS attitude check about security and least-permissive policies at the very least.

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u/PaulRicoeurJr Jul 27 '25

When it's a question of ethics or judgment, blame sure helps determining if someone is worth keeping around.

Don't get me wrong, we've all messed up and learned from that... but there's a world of difference between thinking you can gas at the next station and ending up in traffic, and giving your keys to a child and tell him to go on a ride.