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The one's look a bit funny to me but the rest looks fine.

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Sukh - I have demoted the DC but AD is still installed as a role. I would like to remove AD and web services if possible.

It just hangs really and doesn't do anything. I left it over night last night and it was at the same place when i got in this morning. Tried to remotely manager the server but it won't let me connect, connection times out. Good idea though thanks

Thanks James, but i have tried this article. When i used the cmd prompt it got stuck at 10% and using powershell gave me an error saying no valid module was found ( I think it is only supported in 2008 R2 ) I have rebooted a couple of times. Any other ideas??

I was only going to remove the web services role first after i moved to intranet to one of the other servers. I had the same problem so i decided to demote the DC because of how slow it was running. No new events that i can see in the event log. Gavin

I'm having trouble with one of my servers that is running server 2008. Currently it has been running as a domain controller, print server and hosting the intranet on IIS. As it is getting fairly old and running rather slow i decided to take some of the server roles off it. I was able to demote the server without any problems but now i am unable to remove any of the other roles; such as AD and web services. When i try to remove the role in Server Manager it freezes on "Initializing Removal...." When i try to remove it from cmd it freezes at 10% Any ideas how i could remove them? Thanks

There is an ntbackup restore utility for server 2008 that is available from the microsoft download centre which you can use to restore your backups form server 2003.