RE: [ActiveDir] Remove AD from DC

[Pelle, Joe]

Turns out that the DC’s we sent out were Service Pack 4 and the rest of our DC’s are SP3.  SP4 does not like Single-Layer DNS names so the DC in question needed a registry hack to fix the problem… Here is the KB link:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300684&Product=win2000     Joe Pelle Systems Analyst Information Technology Valassis / IT 19975 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 Tel 734.591.7324  Fax 734.632.6151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.valassis.com/   This message may have included proprietary or protected information.  This message and the information contained herein are not to be further communicated without my express written consent.   From: Centenni, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove AD from DC   I run in to this all the time. I am in a large enterprise 400+ DC’s and we have one or more machines a day that have various issues I know for me sometimes to save time I use \forceremoval and then:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q216498   The clean it’s a LONG process. Anyone feel like scripting it I would be great full ;-)     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Reijnders Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove AD from DC   KB332199 describes the forceremoval option. This option enables you to force the 'dcdemote'. However, this implies doing some cleaning up afterwards like removing metadata from the remaining DCs. Before using this quick and dirty method you should first try to resolve the problem. There can be several causes ... network connectivity problems, name resolution, authentication, replication, etc? To find out what is hindering you from demoting this server you should provide some more info ... is the server operating normal? What do dcdiag, netdiag, etc show?   Cheers, John From: Pelle, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 12 november 2003 15:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Remove AD from DC Has anyone had a problem removing AD from a DC that was in a remote site?  We’re getting some RPC and DNS errors on the box, specifically, “The directory Service failed to find a server to replicate off changes.  The security context could not be established due to a failure in the requested quality of service.”   Any thoughts on this?   Joe Pelle Systems Analyst Information Technology Valassis / IT 19975 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 Tel 734.591.7324  Fax 734.632.6151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.valassis.com/   This message may have included proprietary or protected information.  This message and the information contained herein are not to be further communicated without my express written consent.