Remove W NT 4.0 among DCs W2K

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Vicente Zambrano

Hello.

I want to move from mixed to native mode but I still have
a Windows NT 4.0 server that once was BDC and that I
couldn't upgrade to W2K because this computer hasn't
enough space.

Can I remove this computer (depromote) from my AD without
upgrading the server?. It's important to say that this
server has an application that is still used by some
people in my organization and I can't isolate it or just
format its disks.

Thanks a lot for your answers.
 
NT4 BDCs cannot be dcpromo'd. The way you remove them is the way you are
saying you cannot -you simply delete them and remove their account object
(they only hold a read-only replica of the database and are therefore not
subject to the same rules as AD DCs).

Can you move the application to a Win2k box? If you can then you can just
delete (format) this box and do a fresh Win2k installation? Otherwise,
perhaps you should add disk space and then perform the upgrade.

You could, I suppose (although I'd have to be out of options to do it), free
up some space, upgrade to 2k, and then dcpromo back to a member server (but
running 2k). With hardly any disk space you don't want to be running AD on
that box.


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Hello.

I want to move from mixed to native mode but I still have
a Windows NT 4.0 server that once was BDC and that I
couldn't upgrade to W2K because this computer hasn't
enough space.

Can I remove this computer (depromote) from my AD without
upgrading the server?. It's important to say that this
server has an application that is still used by some
people in my organization and I can't isolate it or just
format its disks.

Thanks a lot for your answers.
 
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