{"id":219,"date":"2019-06-20T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/?p=219"},"modified":"2019-08-18T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T21:48:31","slug":"demoting-a-2008-domain-controller-failed-to-configure-the-service-netlogon-as-requested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Demoting a 2008 Domain Controller &#8211; Failed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Environment<\/h2>\n<p>Windows Server 2008 R2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roles installed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>File and Storage Services<\/li>\n<li>Active Directory Domain Controller<\/li>\n<li>DNS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>Today i am trying to demote a Domain Controller and ran into the following error.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The operation failed because:<br \/>\nFailed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested<br \/>\n&#8220;The wait operation timed out&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Resolution<\/h2>\n<p>The problem was the servers DNS was pointing to itself using 127.0.0.1<br \/>\nMoving this to another DNS server in the Domain allowed me to complete the demotion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=mad_manc\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Windows Server 2008 R2 Roles installed File and Storage Services Active Directory Domain Controller DNS Problem Today i am trying to demote a Domain Controller and ran into the following error. The operation failed because: Failed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested &#8220;The wait operation timed out&#8221; Resolution The problem was the servers DNS was pointing to itself using 127.0.0.1 Moving this to another DNS server in the Domain allowed me to complete the demotion. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jamesblakeley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}