Re: Removing Windows Domain

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Removing a child domain from the forest should not be an issue, even during
normal business hours. I would recommend getting two backups prior to the
removal and storing them somewhere safe, this would include the forest root.
When you remove the child make sure to specify the last dc in the domain.

I don't think you will have any issues with Exchange and even believe it
will clean itself up within the garbage collection if you don't go in and
manually remove the mailboxes. I would post a message in the Exchange
Newsgroups just to verify that there are no hidden gotcha's, but I do a
decent amount of Exchange work and have run tests of removing users w/o
incident.

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"legpeg2008" <mattj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
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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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