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So in my network I have the main domain controller and a backup domain controller. The backup domain controller has exchange on it.
The exchange services have been shut down as I have moved email hosting off site. So I now have no need of that backup domain controller that was running exchange. I want to shut it down for good.
What would be the proper way to remove it from its role in active directory and a backup domain controller?
Both domain controllers are Server 2008.
Thanks much!
Firstly, just don't do it, this is a SysAdmin SIN! Your shooting yourself in the foot. Even for my smallest customers with only 10 members of staff, I often have them purchase a second server to act as a secondary domain controller, DNS server, DHCP Server etc.
It is the first and few things Microsoft recommends as best practice when setting up a domain and one of the first things that is taught to you when you do the MCSA course: When creating a domain a secondary domain controller should be set up. If you have more than 20 Users its a must IMHO. Many things can go wrong and too many times clients have incurred big bills(man hours) because they didnt spend that extra £2000 on another server. I strongly recommend you keep it. It's not just availability, it prevents a large number of corruption issues which can linger for weeks before presenting themselves which makes 7x daily backups no help. It's your sefety net.
If you must get rid of it, first check is doesn't hold the FSMO roles and run dcpromo following the steps here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771844(v=ws.10).aspx
Lastly, your getting down-voted because StackOverflow only like coding qustions and they want you to use ServerFault which is part of the same family.
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I have a scenario where I have multiple mobile phones using a single home wifi router (read not special or expensive) When I get the phones to send almost identical requests to the same location the router appears to be dropping one phone and keeping the other (generally the faster of the two).
After testing for a while now, I'm closing in on the hypothesis that NAT translation is blocking one of the phones or dropping its returned info from the web.
The goal is to get both phones to communicate with a web application online through a generic home wifi without (key aspect here) modifying the router.
My communication is an AJAX request from within a PhoneGap application. Is there something that I can do programatically to help NAT work it's magic and support multiple phones?
This turned out to be an unknown issue with the Web Host provider. Despite more than a dozen detailed requests for what on their side was blocking things I was always referred to how my own equipment or own code was at fault.
Set myself up a VPS and presto change-o I have a working system with no modifications to the code or the equipment.
TIL I don't like people who cover up their incompetency by blaming others.
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I have configured the EC2 and Postfix with domain somedomain.com, and hostname mail.somedomain.com.
The system now can send, and receive email correctly, with just a problem.
When I reply email using the 'mail' command to my Gmail, the sent email has sender address "root#ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.us-west-2.compute.internal" instead of "root#somedomain.com". This long domain name can not be replied by my Gmail account.
Thanks.
Harry
The problem is solved by using the domain name generic mapping.
http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#generic
The above link describes how to do it.
But it is a temporary solution that replaces the lengthy internal domain (ip-xxx-xxx-xx-xxxx.us-west-2.compute.internal) by mydomain.com for every OUTGOING email.
For local email, the system still uses the lengthy internal domain name (ip-xxx-xxx-xx-xxxx.us-west-2.compute.internal)
The problem is: postfix seems to have bypassed the $mydomain, $myorigin, $myhost variable I set in the /etc/main.cf file.
If anyone can solve it, I will greatly appreciate it.
Harry
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Hi I want to develop my own hosting site but i do not know how should i get hosting names ??
How these hosting companies get these domain names ????
Here's the ICANN Accreditation Overview.
Some notes I got from another website (disclaimer: may be out of date)
You need a $500,000 liability policy
(around $5k USD per annum)
$70,000 liquid funds
$2,500 application fee
$4,000 annual accreditation fee
An alternative and cheaper route is finding a reseller, but you will have to pass some serious volume to make any meaningful amount of money.
Find a better niche.
Domain names must be purchased from a domain name registrar. Hosting companies are often resellers for registrars.
Many hosting companies and registrars offer easy-to-use reseller or affiliate programs - they will typically include lots of information on their website. This is by far the best way to get into selling hosting and domain names, as they will take care of the technical side of things. If you have a unique way of selling hosting, this can be quite profitable, but beware of trying to sell online, as this market is extremely crowded and competative already.
Not sure I understand what you're asking, but if you mean to say that you want to start a business hosting other folks's web sites, then you let your customers worry about getting their own domain names. It is nevertheless possible for you to become a domain-name registrar and add that to your business model.
Although I have to say that this is not a typical Stackoverflow question (supposed to be programming questions here). I think this question fits better on ServerFault, and would probably get better answers. You should make the question clearer, though.
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Well, I know absolutely nothing about the subject, so I really need help.
I currently have a website running on google app-engine (Java) and I can't get it to what I want because of app engine's limitations (no full text search mainly). The traffic is low, never reached 15% of the free quota (around 1500 daily pageviews).
I also have 3 sites in drupal hosted in a shared hosting service, and this is giving me problems, because the server speed is awful. The sites are VERY low trafic, but load times are bad, and I might need to add more sites for some clients, so this will only get worse.
So, i'm planning to move all that to VPS. The question is, can I have 2 http servers running in the same VPS? because I will need Apache-php-drupal server and a java server (tomcat?).
I have really no idea on this, so any tip will be very helpful to me.
Thanks!
Yes you can. Your httpd and tomcat will be running on different ports on the same server
Some of the choices you have are
Forward a virtual directory of your httpd to the tomcat server (if you use one domain name)
Use URL based rules to forward the requests from the java app domain to the tomcat server
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Is there a service that will identify where a site is hosted (presumably by IP)?
Who-hosts is an online free service that can tell you which is the company that hosts the provided URL, and doesn't require registration.
tracert www.sitename.com
is probably your best bet. The last entry or two should give you your best hint. Otherwise, the whois entry may be a good indicator as well, especially if they are using a hosting provider for DNS.
EDIT:
Its traceroute not tracert on linux machines.
Just do a whois search on the IP.
http://samspade.org/whois/ is a free utility for telling you who owns an IP address or domain name. If this is a server farm hosting multiple servers, then it will likely be registered to the hosting company.
This isn't exactly what the question asked for, but you might find it useful to know that Netcraft provides some pretty neat information about the uptime, web-server software, and ISP used to host websites as well.
Domaintools can usually give you some pretty good information, under the "Server Data" and using the "Reverse IP" tool (though you have to pay to get full results from that one).
http://whois.domaintools.com/websitename.com
just put the website name in instead of websitename.com.