Check and transfer/seize if required any FSMO roles from the DC. Check if the DC is a Global Catalog. Check for other critical applications runnning on the DC. If network connectivity to other DCs exist try …

One bit of background info: about a year ago the main FSMO role-holding DC died, so I had to sieze the roles onto another DC, decomission the dead one and clean up the mess in AD.

Nov 1, 2012 · The plan is to decomission those 32-bit servers completly and route everything to the 64-bits (as part of the upgrade/migration to 64-bits). The reason we could not do it is because, we found …