Why would you make more work for yourself? Transfer fsmo roles, if necessary. Dcpromo and demote the server to a member server then nuke and repave.
The environment doesn't matter, the risk of borking a dc and the ease of removing and adding a dc should make this kind of decision a no brainer. On Thursday, July 2, 2015, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > I know, don’t do it….migrate. > > But I am going for it, the boxes are pretty fresh with rock solid > hardware. I have no nagging event log issues or issues with the DC’s. I > have a 2012 DC on a VM in the same room if it goes bad. They only do DC > stuff no other crazy apps on them. My domain is very flat and simple…..it’s > summer time there are only 75 people tops working and they are all cool if > it gets annoying. > > Anyone done it this way, how did it go? > > No, not doing it today, don’t want to mess up the holiday weekend. >
