How To Verify the Installation of ADS and How to Remove ADS
In our last article we configured ADS. In this tutorial I will guide you how to check ads installation. ADS installation can be verify from three methods.
- My computer properties
- Login screen
- Administrator tools
My computer properties
To check wheatear ADS is installed or not on server, right click on my computer and select properties, now select computer name tab.
If you see here workgroup options means ADS is not configured
If you see here Domain options means ADS is configured
In image below you can see the Domain name mean ADS is configured on this server
Login screen
Server is domain controller or not it can be verify on Login screen also.
If you see logon to option on login screen mean ADS is configured on this server
Administrator tools
Most reliable testing of ADS is checking in administrator tools. If you see all three options listed below in administrator tools means ADS is properly configured and functioning.
- Active Directory Domains and Trusts
- Active Directory Sites and Services
- Active Directory Users and Computers
Removing of ADS
Sometime it required to remove ADS. In this section I will show you how to remove ADS. ADS can be removed from same three ways which were used to configure it.
- From configure your server wizard
- From manage your server wizard
- From DCPROMO.EXE
All these three option will produce same wizard for removing ADS. You can choose any of them.
To choose configure your server wizard click on start select administrator tools and click on configure your server. This will launch configure your server window. Same windows can be access by clicking on start button and select Manage your server.
Click on add / remove a role
Select Domain controller from list and click on next that will launch ADS remove wizard.
Same wizard can be directly access by running DCPROMO commands in run menu
Click on next to welcome screen
A warning message will appear as this domain controller is the global catalog server click on ok
Check mark on the box of This server is the last domain controller in the domain
Now ADS will remove all DNS information store for this domain Click on next
Wizard will finally confirm you to delete all partitions. Tick mark on Delete all application directory partitions on this domain controller.
Now set administrator password to login after the removal of ADS
Review all the option you have selected and click on next to remove ADS
Now wizard will start removing ADS it will take few minutes
Click on finish button to complete the wizard
A system reboot will require to take place click on restart now
Removing ADS form registry
We always suggest you to use ADS wizard to remove or configure active directory service. But sometimes it became necessary to find out some alternate way to get ride form ADS. Use registry editing only when wizard is unable to remove the ADS.
To remove ADS for registry run regedit command in run box
Locate this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions
In left pane double click on productType
Replace the default LanmanNT to ServerNT and exit from registry
A system reboot will require to take place Restart the system
After restart you will see logon to option on login screen its normal just select local computer and login. You can reconfigure ADS after login in local computer.
After login you can configure ADS form any one method we have discussed in our last article How to configure ads active directory service step by step guide tutorials notes
