I have done a lot of searching on this but cannot find the answer to my question.
I have a 2008 r2 server that was a 2nd DC at one subnet site.
The server failed quite a bit on DCPROMO orinially which caused a number of issues with LDAP connectivity and replication. No matter what I tried I could not resolve the issues.
I tried to gracefully demote the DC using DCPROMO but it would fail as it could not reach the target DC.
I did a dcpromo /force and removed the DC and then removed the AD DS and DNS roles from the server
I then on a current DC did a ntdsutil metadata cleanup of the demoted DC.
I removed the demoted DC from the site under AD sites and services.
My question is this:
The server is still in use and has file shares (user profiles) on it.
Do I need to do anything else?? (
Remove cname dns entries or any other type of steps to make sure this is seen as just as file serever?
It was never a primary dns (just backup) so nothing pointed to it directly for dns.
Thanks
