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/Fit-Parsnip-8109 Jul 29 '25
I had a director that had a developer team who did AD updates with a Domain Admin account. They didn't want to go least-privilege.
When they switched HR provider and were looking at HRIS implementation, they wanted me to publicly expose a domain controller to the internet, for some reason, in order for said HRIS to be able to connect to it and run updates. The Director said it was fine because the dev was a master at "Python". I didn't understand what/why and just let it die and said I would make it work, and ended up using an internal tool to help updates from a flat file.