Re: How to remove vestage DNS entries?

In news:ABFB6181-6183-4999-9715-660DDFD36A25@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Devonshire <Devonshire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I
then commented about below:
> I started a Server 2003 Std install and started to create a
> domain.local entry and changed my mind.

How far in the dcpromo process were you when you "changed your mind"?
Did the process complete and you then demoted it and then re-promoted it
choosing the new name?

> I then joined an existing
> domain (syntax was" domain.com") transferred all the files to the new
> file server and then successfully promoted my new server to primary
> domain controller and finally shut down the old server.

How did you "shutdown" the old server? Did you properly demoted it or just
unplugged it like the way we used to do with an old NT4 server? I guess if
you were trashing the old server and completely eliminating the domain.com
AD domain, then it wouldn't really matter.

btw- "Primary Domain Controllers" (PDCs) don't exist in Windwos 2000 or
2003. There is a FSMO role that one of the servers hold and emulate an NT4
PDC, (that performs other functions as well). NT4's PDC was the ONLY
writable database in the domain. All Win2000 and 2003 DCs are exact master
writable replicas meaning anyone can change anything in AD on any one of the
servers at any given time and depending on what type of data got changed,
will replicate to the domain and/or to the forest.

>
> The problem is that the DNS event log keeps reporting event 4007 over
> and over which is looking for that original domain.local zone which
> does not exist as far as I can tell otherwise. How do I clean this
> up and stop the error messages?

Was the zone AD Integrated? If so, check in ADSI Edit to see if it still
exists.

Also check in the registry under HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/DNS
and see if the zone is in there.


> Thanks in advance!

You are welcome and hope it helped.

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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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