This is fairly common, particularly if you follow the standard method of taking a BDC offline prior to upgrading your NT4 domain to AD. I found the following information useful:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechn ol/windows2000serv/reskit/distsys/part5/dsgappc.asp (watch for URL wrapping) Look at the section under "Managing Orphaned Metadata" ................................................ Douglas Ludens About.com Guide to Windows http://windows.about.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forum: http://windows.about.com/mpboards.htm ................................................ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Benway Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] removing NT 'BDC' from users and computers We are currently running ADS with about 4 NT BDC still. We've taken 2 old NT BDC offline for good. But they still show up in AD users and computers in the domain controllers OU. I've tried just right clicking and deleting them, but I get an error. The DSA object cannot be deleted. I've looked though technet and it was pointing me toward Ntdsutil, but It doesn't seem to be able to do anything with downlevel servers. Anyone have any ideas? Jason Benway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1250 S.Beechtree Grand Haven, MI 49417 616-847-8474 Fax: 616-850-1208 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
