Using manual steps

Sometimes, the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard cannot be used, such as when in the following situations:

• You can no longer sign in interactively or remotely to the domain controller.
• The physical hardware of the domain controller has been damaged beyond repair.
• The domain controller is no longer reachable for other domain controllers.
• The domain controller, for some reason, can no longer be trusted to provide Active Directory Domain Services in a meaningful way.

In these scenarios, the following manual steps can be performed to remove the domain controller from Active Directory.