Re: Removal of dead server GUID's from the Active Directory

Hello Andrew,

Did you check AD sits and services, DNS and AD that all removed DC's are not longer listed at any of these consoles? In AD SS you have to delete them by hand after demoting, they are not removed there automatically.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I am talking about Domain Controllers as down the export is the
replicating servers for that domain partition.

Andrew

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello Andrew,

Are you talking now about domains or domain controllers as the
subject states?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I followed the KB216498 but on the remote servers we always get
these dead GUID's. I have only had 1 domain removed from the
directory and that came out cleanly.

I am wondering how we can remove them thats all. No errors in the
logs but me being fussy..

Andrew

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Andrew,
If these are old dc's that were never removed properly from the
domain then
you can clean them up via NTDSUTIL
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498
If these are old child domain's not properly cleaned up, then you
could again
use NTDSUTIL

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/42485/q-how-can-i-avoid-r
ec
eiving-an-0x2015-error-when-i-use-ntdsutil-to-delete-a-nonexistent-
do main.html

Be careful and make sure that you know exactly what you are
deleting.

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MVP - Directory Services
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Hi All,

We have a root and 7 child domains and over time we have had
upgrades we have some dead GUID's in the Active Directory. After
running the repadmin /showvector /latency ... dnsdomain we get the
following:-

f7e04229-7209-4057-939a-7e4e23778f08 @ USN 7751491 @ Time
(unknown) 62ce0f3e-5d43-4e47-96e7-4a06da5686aa @ USN 31292525 @
Time (unknown) f1904e5c-64c2-4b6e-a7f7-77113cf7542e @ USN
6142210 @ Time (unknown) 68bb747d-0f36-4279-9d2b-a065d82db16b @
USN 11191827 @ Time (unknown)

My question is how do we clean up this up



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