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Old Domain Controller (W2K3) Decommission process in active directory

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It’s single domain environment with 3 DCs, 2 DCs are running Windows Server 2008R2 and one is running with Windows Server 2003.

Planning to decommission Win 2003 Domain controller.

Below is the plan. Please have a look, correct if any steps going in wrong manner.

  1.       Changing Domain controller DNS IP which is planned for decommission from all the Systems, to with available DNS servers.
  2.       Changing the DNS IPs hard coded in Applications and correcting the DHCP scope DNS settings.
  3.       Transferring FSMO roles from this old server.
  4.       Check the health status of the Domain replication. If it is good.
  5.       Stop the replication on DC Windows 2003 (inbound and outbound) 
  6.       Disable the NIC card.
  7.       Shutdown it for 1 week and monitoring it. -==> is this cause any issues except replication, tombstone period is 1 Month for this domain.
  8.       If there is no issues found.
  9.       Demote the server from Domain & clean the metadata using the ntdsutil tool.

___________ Ravi Ch


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