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Unable to remove SharePoint server from Farm – “cacheHostInfo is null”

I was creating a new farm from an existing farm due to project requirements, but I came across a situation wherein I was not able to remove the server from the farm using the SharePoint 2013 UI(server was already removed using the command or you can remove it by using configuration wizard on the server to be removed).

So, the error message which I was getting when I was trying to remove the server from the UI was “cacheHostInfo is null“.

Below is the solution to this problem which I followed and it worked.

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