Demote or Promote Domain Controller

Both of these commands need to be ran under credentials that have authority to demote the server.   

Both of these commands will prompt for new local administrator password 

 

 

#This command will test if there are any problems with demotion 

Test-ADDSDomainControllerUninstallation  

 

 

#This will demote the server 

Uninstall-ADDSDomainController 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Install-WindowsFeature -name AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools 

 

Install-ADDSDomainController -DomainName "centurionind.com" -InstallDns:$true -Credential (Get-Credential "centurionind.com\administrator") 

 

 

 

 

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# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment 

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Import-Module ADDSDeployment 

Install-ADDSDomainController ` 

-NoGlobalCatalog:$false ` 

-CreateDnsDelegation:$false ` 

-CriticalReplicationOnly:$false ` 

-DatabasePath "C:\Windows\NTDS2" ` 

-DomainName "RHSC.local" ` 

-InstallDns:$true ` 

-LogPath "C:\Windows\NTDS2" ` 

-NoRebootOnCompletion:$false ` 

-SiteName "RSI-Russia-DolinaSemyan" ` 

-SysvolPath "C:\Windows\SYSVOL2" ` 

-Force:$true 

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# 

# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment 

# 

 

Import-Module ADDSDeployment 

Install-ADDSDomainController ` 

-NoGlobalCatalog:$false ` 

-CreateDnsDelegation:$false ` 

-CriticalReplicationOnly:$false ` 

-DatabasePath "C:\Windows\NTDS" ` 

-DomainName "RHSC.local" ` 

-InstallDns:$true ` 

-LogPath "C:\Windows\NTDS" ` 

-NoRebootOnCompletion:$false ` 

-SiteName "RSI-Russia-DolinaSemyan" ` 

-SysvolPath "C:\Windows\SYSVOL" ` 

-Force:$true 

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New Domain -> 

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# 

# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment 

# 

 

Import-Module ADDSDeployment 

Install-ADDSForest ` 

-CreateDnsDelegation:$false ` 

-DatabasePath "C:\Windows\NTDS" ` 

-DomainMode "WinThreshold" ` 

-DomainName "LemanEng.local" ` 

-DomainNetbiosName "LEMANENG" ` 

-ForestMode "WinThreshold" ` 

-InstallDns:$true ` 

-LogPath "C:\Windows\NTDS" ` 

-NoRebootOnCompletion:$false ` 

-SysvolPath "C:\Windows\SYSVOL" ` 

-Force:$true 

 

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