“Changing the Primary Domain DNS Name of this Computer Failed” – Server 2008 R2
“Changing the Primary Domain DNS Name of this Computer Failed” – Server 2008 R2
Within an AWS account I have a Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller, and I’m trying to join a Windows Server 2008 R2 to my Whyte.net Domain.
I get this error:
Changing the Primary Domain DNS name of this computer to “” failed. The name will remain “whyte.net”.
The error was:
The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
![](https://peter-whyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winserver2008r2_domain_join_to_server2016_error.png)
I’ve run some domain checks which all appear to be successful. All traffic open between each server.
![](https://peter-whyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winserver2008r2_domain_join_to_server2016_checks.png)
Nothing of note shows in the Event Viewer…
This isn’t something you should have to be doing, joining a now un-supported Windows Server to a domain. To help plan for this kind of change, have a look at Microsoft Docs – AD Functional Levels.
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