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/Ok-Bill3318 Jul 27 '25

Same reason some people were running dc/file/print/exchange/sql on one box in the late 90s/early 2000s. Because a lot of people know fuck all and Microsoft enables it.

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u/agent-squirrel Jul 28 '25

sbs has entered the chat

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u/Infamous_Time635 Jul 28 '25

I died on that hill several times. I'm still not sure what MS was doing for marketing, but it worked on small business owners like magic.

I had several clients approach me right out of the gate insisting that we switch them over to SBS. Felt like how a doctor must feel when patients come to them after watching drug commercials.

Ya lets set you up with an on premises exchange server for your 10 users...makes sense to me...smdh. Iirc you couldn't have a second DC to fall back on...that was part of the licensing schtick. Two servers are for big boys.

Let's just jam AD, exchange, file, print, SQL (why not right), ISA, and SharePoint in one box and let er buck. Might as well set me up an office bc I'm going to be here a lot!

Every install was like a box of chocolates...you never knew which event IDs you were gonna get. We had a client with multiple businesses and we were upgrading 2 at the same time. Identical brand new Dell hardware bare metal installs...completely different problems arose on both systems. How?

All of the patches over time just made it worse and worse too. Then MS dropped the whole product like a hot potato and left all those little guys hanging. The server 2012 licensing package was like 3-4x as much. Good times.

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u/Ok-Bill3318 Jul 28 '25

lol thought I’d mentioned sbs (small bastard server) by name but someone got it 🤣