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DCPROMO demote error on Domain Controller

On trying to remove a old server from the directory (2003 server in a 2003 forest) I received this error > Failed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested “the wait operation timed out.” [https://www.fishbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dcdemoteerror.png] The root problem was that this

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Active Directory in Windows 2008 R2: all the features we wanted last time

We’re starting our plan for upgrading our Domain Controllers to Win2008. A few cool features are snapshots of AD (may replace our lag sites if we can figure out how to use snapshots for item recovery) and local admins of the DC’s don’t have to be domain