Decommissioning a CA

When a CA is no longer needed, it can be decommissioned. This recipe shows how to decommission a CA.

Getting ready

Sign in with local administrator privileges to the standalone CA you intend to decommission.

If you intend to decommission an enterprise CA, sign in with a domain account that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group. Ensure that Active Directory replication works adequately.

How to do it…

Perform these steps to decommission a CA:

1. Press Start.
2. Search for Server Manager or run servermanager.exe. The Server Manager window appears.
3. In the gray top bar of Server Manager, click Manage.
4. Select Remove Roles and Features from the menu. The Remove Roles and Features Wizard window appears.
5. On the Before you begin screen, click Next >.
6. On the Select destination server screen, select the local Windows Server installation from the server pool list and click Next >.
7. On the Remove server roles screen,...