[ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

[Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC)]

Our Security Director has requested that we build a temporary DC for his group. They want to take it offline and audit the current password complexity and strength. This DC will never return to the domain so I will have to manually remove the replication connections in the NTDS settings for each repl partner, plus the DNS records created. I’m just wondering if I’m missing something obvious and that this might not be such a good idea. Possibility of orphaned objects or something to that nature? It won’t be online long but…..   ********************************************************************   Paul Simpsen Windows Server Administrator Enterprise Systems, IT University of Oklahoma HSC 405.271.2262 ext 50230 Fax: 405.271.2126   ******************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.