Remove Global Catalog
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Hope this post finds you in good health and spirit.
This post is regarding how to remove the global catalog role from domain controller .
Remove the global catalog using Active Directory Sites and Services
The Global Catalog stores information for the entire forest, so targeting a search against a GC provides forest-wide information. Data stored in attributes that replicate to GCs is available in the forest and may be accessible via trusts, so this data should be protected appropriately.
Please move your DC to staging site first then perform below steps to remove the global catalog role from domain controller.
- Open Server Manager, click Tools and click Active Directory Sites and Services..
- In the console tree, expand the Sites container, and then select the appropriate site that contains the target server.
- Expand the Servers container, and then expand the server object for the domain controller from which you want to
- Remove the global catalog.
- Right-click NTDS Settings, and then click Properties.
- Clear the Global Catalog check box.
To remove the global catalog using Repadmin
Open an elevated command prompt, type the following command, and press ENTER:
repadmin.exe /options DC_NAME –IS_GC
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