Yes, and yes, to your questions. IF the DC was not properly removed, the traces will hang around for tombstoning and eventual cleanup. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q216498 should help with what needs to be manually cleaned after ungraceful retirement of a DC Sincerely,
D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE MCSA MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Graham Turner Sent: Mon 7/12/2004 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] a bit of AD admin just wanted to run this by the mailing list i know there to be a whole raft of objects left behind in the directory after unorderly shutdown of DC however even in an orderly demotion seems there is a server object left behind at; CN=servername.,CN=servers,CN=site,CN=configuration,DC=xxxx i assume we are safe to delete this and there are no AD dependencies on this object - if there are begs the question why it has been left behind ??? on a similar (perhaps ?) vain i have now contrived to get a couple of "duplicate" local groups "DHCP Users CNF ...." and ditto for "DHCP ADministrators CNF ..." seems a bit of a coincidence that the server i have removed was a DHCP server is it that the server has not been removed from the list of authorised DHCP servers that these groups have appearred GT 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/
