Re: Removing "permanently offline" DC...

Hi,
From your other domain controller are you getting any replication
errors? This is usual caused by replication latency

Matthew McBride wrote:
That was actually the first article I tried...I thought going back through
metadata cleanup after completing all the steps would work, but no luck.
It's the last step that I'm stuck on (#20)...I get no error anything when
attempting that...it just never goes away.

"Harj" wrote:

Hi,

Take a look at this article about metadata cleanup which describes the
DSA object cannot be found

How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain
controller demotion
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498/

My years at Microsoft showed me this could be a replication issue
still, but if you follow the article you will be able to remove the old
DC with no problems

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com


Matthew McBride wrote:
Yes...I get several errors when attempting. Something about "element not
found" and "DSA object could not be found."


"abckid" wrote:

Hi,

Did you try metadata cleanup ?

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/1a7522c3-ac6e-4f83-af5b-9be87b47a95d1033.mspx?mfr=true

abckid.

"Matthew McBride" wrote:

One of our DC's died a few weeks ago...it wasn't a server class machine and
suffered a hard drive failure. I have another server promoted and have
switched all the FSMO roles. Everything seems to be replicating correctly,
but I am unable to remove all traces of the previous DC. I'm getting
numerous errors in the logs because the current DC's can't find it.

I tried going to AD Sites and Services and removing it there...but even when
I click the option that the domain controller is permanently offline and
cannot be demoted by using DCPROMO, it never gets deleted.

Any suggestions?



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