Decommissioning a Publication Target
Using the TOM.NET API or the Core Service API, you can decommission a Publication Target; that is, you can delete the Publication Target without explicitly unpublishing its contents.
Before you begin
Decommissioning a Publication Target requires System Administrator rights.
About this task
Decommissioning a Publication Target is useful if you are working on your Content Delivery infrastructure and are simply removing your Publication Target's server(s). Actually unpublishing all items is potentially time-consuming and unnecessary if the server or servers are removed anyway.