Shutting AD down
We are running Active Directory at a Windows Server 2008 R2 Functional Level on a virtual environment. We are planning on upgrading the core and distribution layer switches on our network. Some of this work will require us to shut the virtual environment down. Because of this we are looking for some direction on gracefully shutting Active Directory down. I haven’t found much on the internet (maybe because this isn’t something we are supposed to do?).
Does anyone know of a procedure or some direction of how to do this?