Re: How to remove vestage DNS entries?

In news:489D3B6C-D229-46B7-9F8C-F923E3B8A60F@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Devonshire <Devonshire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I
then commented about below:
>> Ok, maybe I might be missing something. It appears you are talking
>> about an NT4 machine you pulled the plug on.
>>
>> If it's not an NT4 DC, the plugged can't just be simply "pulled" with
>> Windows 2000 and 2003 DCs. THey have to properly demoted using
>> dcpromo.exe. You just select to demote the machine from a DC to a
>> member server. If you did this, then I would suggest to plug it back
>> in and demote it, as long as the plug wasn't pulled on it more than
>> 60 days ago (the default tombstone lifetime of a deleted record in
>> the AD database). If longer than the tombstone lifetime, the old
>> server can't be brought back up and would need to get wiped clean
>> and reinstalled. Then a Metadata cleanup will be required to clean
>> it's old reference out of the AD database.
>
> It was a Windows 2000 server. I downloaded and installed a utility to
> enable it to be in the newer WIN2003 server forest (I can't remember
> the exact name of it, but otherwise the new server couldn't connect
> to the old WIN2000 Server's DC). That utility patch was successful.
> Then I did the formal DCPromo and every step was successful. (My
> brother-in-law who actually does this stuff everyday was there at
> every step).
>


A utility to change domain membership for a member server to move from one
domain to another? Or is it a utility to change domain membership of a DC to
another domain?

Ace


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