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Removing Certificate Services

We currently have 2 Windows 2000 Domain controllers and a member server which runs Certificate Services (Enterprise Root CA).  

The certificate server is old and will be decommissioned.  We will eventually put a new server in place and use that for issuing certificates.  The only reason I think this Certificate server exists currently is for EFS, and there doesn't seem to be many users, if any at all who actually encrypt files.  My question is can I safely uninstall Certificate services from this server.

I realise we wouldn't have a valid recovery agent but that wouldn't be an issue if there aren't any users encrypting files.  The thing is both our Domain controllers have acquired a certificate from the certificate server and what I want to know is will uninstalling certificate services bring any detremental effects on the Domain controllers.  What process / procedure do I need to follow to uninstall certificate services?

I cannot find anything in Group policy to suggest certificates are being used except as a recovery agent.

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OK, but would you recommend revoking the DC certificates after backing up the CA Certificate and Private key (but before stopping the service)?

My theory is if I revoke the certificates and remove the EFS agent in the GPO then stop the service and then monitor I believe if there is no Cert server the DC's cannot obtain a certificate - does that sound reasonable?  Then I should be in a position to remove Cert services.  Presumably I wouldn't have any problems then installing Cert services on a different server in a few months???