Removing a Federation Server
Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2
When you no longer need a server that is running the Federation Service component of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), perform the following procedures:
Remove the Federation Service ADFS component, as described in Remove an ADFS component.
If you have a federation server farm and the trust policy is shared on the network, disconnect the mapped network drive for the connection to the shared trust policy folder.
Delete the token-signing certificate from the certificate store. For information about how to delete a certificate from a certificate store, see Delete a certificate (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62715.
If this is the only instance of the Federation Service, do the following:
Notify the partner that this issuer is no longer valid and tell them to remove the partner node for this Federation Service, as described in Removing ADFS Partners.
Decommission the Web server and change the authentication for any Web applications.