Re: DCPROMO Question

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Hi Rob,

I wouldn't expect it to pull the DNS zone out of there -- it doesn't have
permissions for that. I would expect it to pull the srv records that
reference the domain.

I don't have a domain that I can try this on to bear this out, but I would
expect those to be dropped... or at least scavenged eventually.

Thoughts?
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"Rob (Microsoft)" wrote:

Hi Ann,

If the zone is on a member server, then no it will not be deleted since it
would be a Standard Primary zone and not Active Directory integrated. If it
is running in another domain, it will also not be deleted unless it's a
Domain or Forest zone.

The only time it will be automatically deleted is when you are running an AD
integrated zone in the domain itself.

Thanks

"Ann" wrote:

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
news:7EF2467B-F645-4A57-95CD-F0CFF13FBC69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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