Remove services in windows server 2008

Sign in to vote. I cannot uninstall terminal services on server Every time I attempt to it will perform the removal process and restart. Once restarted it will perform this 2 more times and tell me that it failed. I was testing out the terminal apps portion and now that the trial period is over I just want to RDP for administration.

Can someone help me? Thursday, February 2, PM. Miller 1. I actually figured out this issue. A lot of the folders here had no permissions which would cause the error. To remedy the issue I changed the permissions to allow administrators which fixed the issue and allowed me to uninstall terminal services through server manager. Marked as answer by Joshua D. As for users, if they are AD accounts there is no simple way to remove AD and have local accounts created, this will have to be a manual process.

ROD-IT: Yes the point to remove is ceause here they want the system to the original state it was before install AD not just for the " ourdomain. Local admin will only have local admin, your accounts disappeared because the AD database was deleted by you removing AD.

Because you can't do anything on system after demotion. Gary about this too: "You need more than one domain controller. You cannot remove AD and have all the AD users automatically made local users. And with that can we have the server at original state before install AD? If your clients and servers are all domain joined you are going to make this a very horrible place to work removing AD while people are trying to work.

Once a DC has been demoted, you have to reboot it and then local admin will have admin access to the server. Yes the theory is enter with the new "Administrator" you must have all privilegies I agree with that but the reality when we tested we were able to login yes but we wanted to modify roles or other thing of the system and we had a message that I don't remember very well but was regarding we don't have highest privilegies to group pollicy then we could not modify anything.

Now if we could have just one "Adninistrator" after a demotion with the whole profile settings and privileges and running SQL server and IIs like it was would be perfect we can configure the rest but like I mentioned before with the Administrator created by dcpromo you can't do nothing remove roles, etc.

Now this computer has only IIs, Sql server and one administrator working really In the cae the other users are deleted we can re configure there are no important users there are for ftp access at the most. The only use for the server is IIs, Sql Server nothing else. Also, if SQL has windows auth, those will need to be changed as there are no longer domain accounts for it to use for auth.

Your first post here was also very confusing, for those who haven't seen it and want some background, it's here. You spoke about 10 domains which I assume you mean public domain TLDs for websites , you spoke about renaming the domain, now you're talking about taking it out completely.

I don't think you fully understand the consequences and there is no shame in admitting so, we're here to help but we can't if you make us believe you understand things, like DNS, Active Directory, domain TLDs etc. If your network has more than a handful of devices, then a domain makes sense, trying to remove it at this stage is going to be risky, time consuming and likely a lot of work. If we can get an understanding of how many machines you have, both clients and servers as well as why you want to remove active directory we can give you better guidance.

Unfortunately I see no reason to remove it, unless like I posted above, you are decommissioning a domain, either to migrate to someone else's, or you are removing it as it isn't needed - this doesn't revert devices back to before domain joining.

We have 5 users for ftp and 1 administrator that's it. For example one thing was we went to Server Manager and Try check roles to remove for example. The company has more servers with a host provider. Best External Solid State Drives.

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Just curious. The other issue this may cause us, is we have Exchange certificates which reference the CA, but these certs do not show as issued in the CA, so not sure if they need the CA available to work. I am guess they were possibly signed by the CA and thus are in the chain? Can't seem to figure out if these Exchange certs need the CA? Yeah CRL is on this machine.

This is what I heard can cause issue with the Exchange certs, because they can no longer find the CRL? Was thinking about doing this anyway, as the old CA is a mess and likely wasn't setup properly anyway. I recognize the name as a server they retired prior to my starting here I have seen other references too. Looks like they did not cleanup the AD properly when they removed this other server. If the old CA no longer exists keep in mind that the CA name is separate from the server name then yes, you can delete.

Will restart server tomorrow morning, remove these old references and try to remove the role again. If the removal still fails, I am going to manually remove the CA and install a new one.