Re: unable to remove domain controller

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:43:02 -0000

dcpromo /foreremoval

That'll demote the box regardless.

Are there other 2003 DCs in this domain? Are there any other DCs? You'll
need to do a metadata cleanup.

Google, "ntdsutil metadata unsuccessful demotion site:support.microsoft.com"
without the quotes ;-) 

-- 
Paul Williams
http://www.msresource.net
http://forums.msresource.net
<rsl315@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1109618892.482862.314420@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
When running DCPromo I receive the following error:
Active Directory could not find another domain controller to transfer
the remaining data in directory partition
DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=mydomain,DC=ad.
"The specified domain either does not exist or could not be
contacted."
I'm trying to remove a server from our test environment and I don't
want to force the removal.  Any ideas?  thanks in advance.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Domain Controllers OU
    ... It's a default container and as such some applications (possibly Active Directory itself maybe during dcpromo?) is going to expect to find that default there. ... We plan on breaking servers into a couple high-level roles and thought the DCs OU would fit naturally into this heirarchy. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: Bring an old DC back up after tombstone time
    ... Do a DCPromo /forceremoval, ... AD on the other DCs with NTDSUtil "metadata ... > DCs to get the outdated informations of the temp dc. ... Key points to NOTE when doing the metadata cleanup: ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory)
  • Re: unable to remove domain controller
    ... Are there any other DCs? ... > Google, "ntdsutil metadata unsuccessful demotion ... > When running DCPromo I receive the following error: ... > Active Directory could not find another domain controller to transfer ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory)
  • Re: After DCPROMO /forceremoval
    ... After we ran dcpromo /forceremoval on our DC we were unable to login to the ... When we run metadata cleanup and try to connect to our old DC that we ... The forceremoval only removes the AD components from that server, ... We ran dcpromo /forceremoval on one of our DC's. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: DHCP-Server Wirrwar
    ... Wenn das DCPROMO zum herunterstufen des DCs, ... [Yusufs Directory Blog - Die Metadaten des Active Directory unter Windows ... Client findet per Broadcast "seinen" DHCP-Server. ...
    (microsoft.public.de.german.windows.server.active_directory)