Hi,
I used Dcpromo to retire a Windows 2003 domain controller. The process stopped after couple of minutes with message "cannot stop netlogon service". It gave me an option to go back or forward. I clicked on back tab and then next. The uninstall process continues and I noticed it stopped few other services and I got a window stating that the Active Directory service is uninstall successfully. At this point I do not know if it was "clean" uninstall or not. I left the server online for 2 days. Last night I shutdown the server. This morning, the user cannot access websites and browsing is really slow. Some website open up but slow and other just do not open. There are two Windows 2008 R2 AD/DNS servers in the environment. I bring the server back online and now the user can browse websites and they open up quickly.
I need to retired that server but at this point the user is having issue if the server is not online. Please note All FSMO roles are moved to Windows 2008 R2 DC before I started the dcpromo process
Thanks