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By - notmayo
Posted on March 2, 2020
Posted in SysAdmin, Windows Server

NETLOGON wait operation timed out when demoting a domain controller

When demoting a domain controller using dcpromo, you may run into the following error: Error The operation failed because: Failed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested “The wait operation timed out” The error message is quite misleading as the real cause has got nothing to do with NETLOGON, but is in fact a DNS issue. You

By - notmayo
Posted on February 27, 2020April 1, 2020
Posted in SysAdmin, Windows Server

Updating Powershell on Server 2008R2

Download WMF 5.1 to a Windows Server 2008 R2 system This also works with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. By default Windows Server 2016 already has PowerShell 5.0 installed, so this is not required there. Note that to upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 you must be using Service Pack 1 (SP1). First we’ll confirm