Re: DC removal - offline

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Don't you have to clean up AD to completely remove a DC that hasn't been
DCPROMO'd???

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Tom Rogers" <jeditom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eSS68nXBGHA.1124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My thoughts: If there are any roles assigned to this DC, they need to be
> assigned to other DCs first. Also any services such as WINS, DHCP, DNS.
>
> Then you could just remove the DC from AD by deleting the computer from
> the AD listing.
>
> -Tom
>
>
> "Mark Clark" <MarkClark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:03FE34FB-451A-4AD7-87E1-75F9F9E315A8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hello
>>
>> It seems that our remote site DC is down! It could be two things, corrupt
>> OS
>> and possible raid controller problem.
>> Typically we would remove the DC by running dcpromo.
>> We were planning to remove this DC form the network anyways and I am
>> wondering if this is possible without attaching the down DC back to the
>> network?
>> Any tips or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark Clark
>
>


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