DC really messed up... now what?!

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Tom Thompson

All;

How difficult is it to remove a DC from an AD domain? Here's the situation
if you have time to read on..

Once there was an NT4 machine running as the PDC, it then was upgraded and
became a Win2k Server with AD enabled. Next a new machine came to the
network and was also installed as a DC. A year or so later a third machine
at a different site was added as a DC to help with logons across a WAN link.

Now the first machine is having ALOT of problem, way to many to fix, if they
are even fixable. How difficult is it to just remove the first machine as a
DC and make it a file server in the domain ( Which it already does as a part
of it's tasks.)

Any advice on what steps to take to accomplish this, or does this involve a
complete reinstall ??

HELP!

Thanks

Tom
 
Thanks,

Reading over my original post, I forgot to mention that the first server is
also a DNS server and our RAS server. Will this have any effect on those two
services??


Thanks for all and any advice.

Tom
 
Make sure there is another Domain Controller with DNS and an Active
Directory integrated zone for the particular domain. RAS dose't couse any
actions to perform you can setup ras on another box if you want.
 
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