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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RM
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:19 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] New DC with old DC name...
Got some weirdness here....
We decided to nuke-n-pave a 2000 DC and bring it back up as 2003. I DCPROMO'd it down to a member server and shut it down. I deleted its computer account and DNS records. I checked the dc _msdcs gc tcp blah blah DNS records to verify that there was no trace of this old DC and that the appropriate DC's were providing site coverage in the interim (they were).
I then formatted it, installed 2003, named it with the old DC name, and joined it to the domain. That's when the trouble started. First the computer account was spontaneously deleted. I joined it again and saw dnsapi, netlogon, and userenv errors in the event log. %LOGONSERVER% was the wrong DC and gpresult was giving the wrong site name. I then lost the computer account again.
I finally gave up and selected a new name for the machine and all was well.
I had thought that after a successful downward DCPROMO, all traces of the old system would be gone from AD. What step did I miss?
RM
