Customer has an old Windows Server 2003 R2 that is running his accounting system. He is moving to a new setup and one of the requirements was that he no longer needs the server to be a domain controller, in fact it has to be workgroup accessible. I found instructions on Microsoft's site to migrate the server from a domain controller to a workgroup system. It appeared to work, but now the server is shutting down. The message say the server has to be configured as a domain controller and must shutdown because it does not comply with the EULA. I'm at a loss as to how to correct this problem. It is now a stand-alone system with a few users remote logging in. Any suggestions on how to get back to a running system without a complete reinstall would be greatly appreciated (I'm not certain I can get the accounting software reinstalled).

Seems to me a license problem here. you should follow below link to understand this better http://forums.techarena.in/small-business-server/448893.htm http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winservergen/thread/221d1564-61ea-45c7-8e2d-97a1ae36fd3b As per my understanding , you should call microsoft on this and report the problem Regards, _Prashant_MCSA|MCITP SA|Microsoft Exchange 2003 Blog - http://prashant1987.wordpress.com Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

This sounds like an SBS server. If so I'd ask them here. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/threads Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.