Re: DCPROMO Question

Well wait a minute here Ann. you wrote that this was the last DC in the
domain and it was not a DNS server? If it wasn't then what DNS entries are
you worried about and if you start over fresh it will be a clean machine
with no DNS records will it not?


"Ann" <Ann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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SBS,

Thanks for your response.

Even though DNS is on a completely different server, and we were never
fully integrated with the domain, I only had one other server in it that
was
not a controller....all my DNS entries will be automatically deleted that
still pertain to that domain?

I created all the entries manually....we have a need to create a new
domain
and I thought I would get rid of this one, especially since we no longer
need the server and start fresh and do it right.

Thanks for your help.

Ann

"SBS Rocker" wrote:

Hi Ann,
To answer your questions would be yes to both. When you remove the last
DC
from a domain it will remove all AD information. AD will no longer exist
and
it will also remove DNS entries also as it is the last DNS server also
remaining in the domain.

"Ann" <Ann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was reading up on decommissioning a DC. This is the last server in
the
domain, no other servers are in the domain. I plan on running DCPROMO
to
remove Active Directory and then shut the server down since it's no
longer
needed.

My question is (and it's a weird one), when you're going through the
wizard
and it states that the domain will no longer exist, does that rip out
all
the information from the DNS server for that domain I'm removing or
will
it
stay there? (it's on a completely different server) Odd question I
know,
I
hope I asked it right.

Thanks in advance.





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