Re: help - formatting domain controller

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From: David Adner (davidadner_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:00:27 -0800

It depends on if this is the last DC in your Domain or not. Assuming
you have other DC's, you need to do the following:
1. Verify all services running on the DC are available on other DC's.
This includes DNS, GC, FSMO roles, etc.
2. Run DCPROMO on the DC to demote it. You should not simply turn it
off or rebuild it as AD will not automatically clean out its entries and
will have issues due to the orphaned records. So, yes, remove it from
AD (demote it back to a member server), then rebuild it and promote it
back into AD.

I'm not familiar with Exchange so I can't answer for that.

bart3r@netspace.net.au wrote:
>
> I want to format one of the domain controllers, and just wondering
> what the process is for removing and adding it back into the domain?
>
> The machine is our Exchange Server, and I want to format, re-install
> exchange and then put it back on the domain.
>
> If i format it and try to put in back on the domain with the same
> name, will it let me?
> Or do i have to remove it from active directory, format it, and then
> add it back into active directory.
>
> Any help, or reference links would be great.
> Thankyou.

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