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Taking down a domain controller

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by itadmin

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I recently upgraded the hard drives in my domain controller that handles my FSMO roles to bigger drives. The raid controller handled all of the data rebuild but only shows the array as the original size. I need to take down my machine and rebuild the array, then recovery my domain controller. My question is, what is the best way to do that? I understand I need to transer all of my FSMO roles first, but should I demote the controller and then remove it before I take it down? I want to make this as clean as possible. Any ideas?

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by bart777

If you want it to be as clean as you can then transfer the roles and demote the server. I might go as far as to disjoin the server from the domain.

Then you can do whatever you need to the server. Bring it back into the domain and promote it back to a DC.

The extra steps of demoting it nd removing from the domain won't take much time so I would do it.

Best of luck

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