Re: Remove of Domain Controllers

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:02:44 -0700

This worked fine - once I connected to the proper server -
while the article mentioned you may get an error
connecting to the one you want to remove, it didn't say
NOT to and that was the piece of info I was missing.

Thanks all for your input!!
JR
>-----Original Message-----
>Re. the endpoint mapper question:
> -- Is the DC that you are trying to bind to behind a
firewall??
>
>In order to clean up your domain, you will need to
perform the steps listed
>in that article. Are you connecting (binding) to the
existing DC (not the
>missing one)? You need to connect to the existing one to
delete the missing
>one; you cannot connect to the missing one.
>
>The NT box can simply be powered off and then the
computer object deleted
>from it's container. I've heard talk of difficulties
deleting the account
>from dsa.msc. If you have this, you'll need to delete
the object by using
>ADSIEdit (support tools).
>
>
>--
>
>Paul Williams
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>"JR Trent" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:462e01c4734a$c14671d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I have 2 domain controllers I need to remove from AD - one
>which is an NT 4.0 box & one which was W2K but crashed &
>was replaced with a different server (with the same IP as
>the old one) & is no longer available for dcpromo
>demotion. We are in a mixed mode domain & desire to
>remove the NT in order to be native mode. The W2K we want
>to remove just to be clean & not see these "lovely"
>replication errors anymore. I've tried using ntdsutil as
>recommended in KB article 216498, but get an error that is
>as follows: DsBindWithCredW error 0x6d9(There are no more
>endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.) I have
>searched everywhere I can think of to no avail to find out
>what this error is & how to avoid or work around it. Any
>assistance would be much appreciated!
>
>
>.
>

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