Decommission BDC

[mrperty]

Hi,

Wish to decomission BDC from network - wipe machine and use elsewhere as member server. Has no purpose at this stage. Have existing PDC and BDC in domain which are syncing correctly. This was an up and running BDC - netlogon service running etc. Any implications for users around authenication etc if I just remove this BDC from Server manager and wipe

tks

 

[ShackDaddy]

No, you should be fine. If this was a Windows 2000/2003 domain, there would be some things to worry about, but not in an NT domain.

ShackDaddy

 

[mrperty]

Thanks shackdaddy

 

[mrperty]

As a test I shutdown netlogon on this BDC and ensured by PDC and other BDC where uptodate. I logged on users however they are no longer able to map to their user data files on this BDC (BDC was also File and Print). I get error when mapping drive "The referenced account is currently locked out and my not be logged onto".

any ideas what i can do
tks

 

[ShackDaddy]

The NetLogon service is not a PDC/BDC-specific service. All file servers (and any workstation that is sharing something) need to have it running. It's the service that authenticates users. On a BDC, it would authenticate against the local copy of the domain database, on a non-DC server, it would send an authentication request to a DC. When you wipe this server and rebuild it, there will be a RUNNING NetLogon service on it.

ShackDaddy

 

[mrperty]

Shackdaddy thanks for your quick response.

This seems to clarify situation I was in..