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This is a link to remove meta data after forced removal of AD. I am looking for information on how to force remove AD from a server that is already hosed.
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This is a link to remove meta data after forced removal of AD. I am looking for information on how to force remove AD from a server that is already hosed.

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same difference<br />
a force removal does not tell other domain controllers that it is gone so this process takes care of that<br />
if AD is hosed and is going away, why bother trying to do a force removal? &nbsp;either way still need to do metadata cleanup
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same difference
a force removal does not tell other domain controllers that it is gone so this process takes care of that
if AD is hosed and is going away, why bother trying to do a force removal?  either way still need to do metadata cleanup

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for reference, you use the <b>/forceremoval</b> switch with dcpromo which still requires a metadata cleanup
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for reference, you use the /forceremoval switch with dcpromo which still requires a metadata cleanup

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We have a w2003 server that failed to start due to ntds.dit corruption. It also acts as a file server and we couldn't repair it fast enough or get a snapshot back so we decided to just leave it running in recovery mode for now so it can still serve out the file shares that are on it. Is it possible to remove AD/DNS roles from this while it is running in recovery mode?
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We have a w2003 server that failed to start due to ntds.dit corruption. It also acts as a file server and we couldn't repair it fast enough or get a snapshot back so we decided to just leave it running in recovery mode for now so it can still serve out the file shares that are on it. Is it possible to remove AD/DNS roles from this while it is running in recovery mode?

Remove roles from broken w03 server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).