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Do I need to migrate our CA?

We are in the process of retiring our last 2003 DC so that we can move to a 2008 DFL and FFL. In attempting to demote our 2003 DC it is telling me that I need to remove the CA from it. No one is quite sure why we have a CA installed, I am not sure we are using it at all. I have pulled the current active certs issued by it, and they are mostly EFS and a few DC certs. Question that I have is two fold:

1. Is it in our best interest to migrate this over to the new 2008 DC, following this guide?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126140%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_AddCAbySM

Or, can I simply remove CS from 2003 and create a new one in 2008 and request new certs for all of these things?

2. Do we in fact actually need a CA for normal DC communications? My understanding is no, we do not. And unless we want to issue certs for things or request EFS certs, it is not needed, and I can simply remove CS from this and not even bother setting it up on the new one.

Thank you for your time,

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arnold

You can backup the existing cA, and then restore it on a win2k8 ca.
If you already have a win2k8 hyper-v, you can virtualized the root CA server and restore it from the backup.

While there are few certs issued, I would not risk the possibility that the removal of the CA may have an adverse impact on the environment.

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Backed up the CA and removed it yesterday. Got about three or four KDC errors. But nothing major.