Dear All,
After I promote a member server (Windows 2012) to DC, the Server manager appear problem - continue refresh. So I want to demote the DC. But when I use Server Manager to demote the DC. The server manager was crash and pop up the following windows
of "Server Manager has stopped working. the following is the Problem details
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: servermanager.exe
Problem Signature 02: 6.2.9200.16384
Problem Signature 03: 50107b22
Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.30319.18408
Problem Signature 06: 52310544
Problem Signature 07: 213a
Problem Signature 08: c
Problem Signature 09: N3CTRYE2KN3C34SGL4ZQYRBFTE4M13NB
OS Version: 6.2.9200.2.0.0.272.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 7a77
Additional Information 2: 7a77983701ecc7870d72712ffa4c3c88
Additional Information 3: 0d21
Additional Information 4: 0d21f39a9c4640e165ea4c6c0e5e6368
When I try to using PowerShell to demote the DC,
Response with the following error message.
PS C:\Users\Administrator.SRLENG> Uninstall-ADDSDomainController
LocalAdministratorPassword: ********
Confirm LocalAdministratorPassword: ********
The server will be automatically restarted when this operation is complete. The domain will no longer exist after you
uninstall Active Directory Domain Services from the last domain controller in the domain.
Do you want to continue with this operation?
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): A
Uninstall-ADDSDomainController : Verification of prerequisites for Domain Controller promotion failed. Failed to
detect component binaries.
At line:1 char:1
+ Uninstall-ADDSDomainController
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Uninstall-ADDSDomainController], TestFailedException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Test.VerifyDcPromoCore.DCPromo.General.64,Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Deployment.PowerSh
ell.Commands.UninstallADDSDomainCommand
Message Context
RebootRequired Status
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Verification of prerequisi... Test.VerifyDcPromoCore.DCP... False
Error
Is that anyone can help. Thanks!