decommisioning a domain controller

[Oops_my_bad]

Hi guys

 

A bit of background:

 

I am running 2 domain controllers, nameley DC1 & DC2. I am having a few probs with the RAID array in DC2 and the controller is going to be replaced under warranty.

 

Whilst I'm at it I might as well reconfigure the disks(the guy before me has a rediculously huge system partition and not much for file storage) but this will obv mean killing the DC

 

Anyway - long story short. As far as I can tell DC1 is a PDC emulator, RID, GC, schema master, and Primary DNS server. DC2 holds the infrastructure roles. Is there anyway I can confirm this?

 

What I want to do is decomission DC2 temporarily while I rebuild the OS and the reinstate it once it's all sorted. How can I transfer the roles from DC2 onto DC1 and remove it from AD?

 

Thanx!

[ChrisH]

Go to AD users and computers and righ click the top level object with the domain name. You will find what you want under there somewhere.

[Ric_]

DCPROMO should do it for you when you demote it reeally (assuming that the flaky RAID controller is still operational enough to allow the system to run).

[steveg]

Have a look at http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/b96e3f0a-bf98-4a80-8718-dd80dc1071fd1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

Should tell you everything you need to know.

 

Steve