To prepare for an upcoming college course that I might take, I have re-purposed one of my computers as an all-round network server (domain, DNS, IIS, Hyper-V et al.). When I set up the machine, I initially set it up the domain as home.local but after I added all of the roles I realized that I actually had a spare domain name that I wasn't using. I somehow managed to change the domain from home.local to home.mysite.com and everything thing seems to be working. The only problem is that when I click on AD Certificate Services from the Server Manager I get an error message, titled "Certificate Templates", with the text "Windows encountered problems enumerating writable domain controllers for the home.local Domain. This computer is not joined to a domain. Certificate templates are not available." What's funny is that I am joined to the domain and other computers on my network are too. How can I fix this issue and eradicate all traces of the old domain? Do I have to re-install Windows?
P.S. I tried Googling this error and found nothing useful or relevant. I also removed and re-installed the offending role with no luck.
Best Answer
If you set up the Domain Controller role with the old name, you are probably best off starting over. You can rename the domain using rendom, but the process is such a pain that it's much easier to restart from scratch unless you'd lose critical data.