Is there any official documentation around "procedure to take a publish instance out of production."

[cquser1]

Hi,

Would be helpful, if you can provide some links/articles w.r.t this.

[smacdonald2008]

There is no docs for this. Why would this be any different than removing a non AEM Server out of your network. Make sure that all of your author instances are still working with running PROD AEM instances and you have replaced the servers where required.