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There is nothing that <i>needs</i> to be cleaned up. &nbsp;Maintenance of your AD to remove unused accounts, etc. is another topic but it's not required for introducing a new DC.
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There is nothing that needs to be cleaned up.  Maintenance of your AD to remove unused accounts, etc. is another topic but it's not required for introducing a new DC.

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Thanks footech.<br />
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I guess what I'm asking is what should I remove to maintain my AD.<br />
I realize that I could introduce the new DC, &nbsp;let everything replicate, then do the maintenance later, &nbsp;but what I'm wanting to do is clean up AD before adding the DC. <br />
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This is a very simple domain. I'm thinking all I need to do is remove unused accounts, computers and clean up DNS (not that I need to do that first either) by removing records that aren't applicable anymore. I'm looking now and there are a lot of them.<br />
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So I guess my question is, other than users and computers, is there anything I need to remove to keep AD in good shape?<br />
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Thanks,
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Thanks footech.

I guess what I'm asking is what should I remove to maintain my AD.
I realize that I could introduce the new DC,  let everything replicate, then do the maintenance later,  but what I'm wanting to do is clean up AD before adding the DC.

This is a very simple domain. I'm thinking all I need to do is remove unused accounts, computers and clean up DNS (not that I need to do that first either) by removing records that aren't applicable anymore. I'm looking now and there are a lot of them.

So I guess my question is, other than users and computers, is there anything I need to remove to keep AD in good shape?

Thanks,

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Hello,<br />
I am replacing a 2003 server with a 2012 R2 server.<br />
Can anyone give me some advice on what I need to clean up in AD before adding the new server, giving it the domain controller role and replicating?<br />
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I've deleted all unneeded users and see a lot of computers that are no longer in use, so I'll be deleting them.<br />
Is there anything else I should look for?
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Hello,
I am replacing a 2003 server with a 2012 R2 server.
Can anyone give me some advice on what I need to clean up in AD before adding the new server, giving it the domain controller role and replicating?

I've deleted all unneeded users and see a lot of computers that are no longer in use, so I'll be deleting them.
Is there anything else I should look for?

Cleaning up AD for installation of new 2012 domain controller

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).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.