Re: Removing Windows Domain

Hello legpeg2008,

1. Should not make any trouble for the running domain, just remove the last DC for that domain. If it fails, have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230306

2. The only thing you have to cleanup afterwards will be exchange to remove the not longer needed mailboxes. If no accounts mapped to the mailbox, the event viewer of the exchange can fill up with errors/warnings about missing mappings between existing mailboxes and user accounts.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hello

I need to remove a domain from our network. We currently have two
domains, domain A (HEAD OFFICE) & domain B (BRANCH OFFICE). Domain A
was the first one set up, with domain B, being set up as a child
domain under the original forest somewhat later. Domain B I need to
remove, we run windows 2003 server (mixture of enterprise/standard
&r2. Domain A & B are in different AD sites (they are in
geographically seperate buildings) and are linked by a 5mb P2P
wireless connection.

This domain has only 1 server which is a DC/FS/PS etc. I have read
some instructions on the technet website on how to remove a domain but
I'm not sure on a few issues:-

1. Can I remove the domain quite easily during working hours - or
would i be
asking for trouble!
2. Domain A hosted the emails for Domain B (ie the mailboxes are on an
exchange 2003 enterprise server in domain A, but the user accounts are
in
domain B). Would this cause any issues; i understand that the removal
of
active directory will delete all user accounts (i am not worried about
losing the emails though). I am mainly interested in that we do not
affect
the running of our head office site.
Thanks

Matt



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