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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.

Procedure

  1. Do one of the following:
    • In TOM.NET, call the PublishEngine.DecommissionPublicationTarget method.
    • In the Core Service, call the DecommissionPublicationTarget method.
    Refer to the respective API reference documentation for more details on these methods. Effectively, these methods set the publish status of all items on the Publication Target to "unpublished" for that Publication Target.
  2. Delete the Publication Target. If any publish action to that Publication Target occurs before you delete it, you need to decommission the Publication Target again.