Hello, colleagues, A client that we had set up as a site within our domain with its own pair of DC's has decided to break off from us, get their own ISP, and cut the network cable between us. In fact, they've done that last weekend. Now, the Directory Service event log on one of our DC's is spewing out 21 warning and error messages every 15 minutes, all related to the fact that there are no available DC's in that site. Doing a Google search, I found this article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216498 which describes at least 20 steps that must be taken to remove a DC following an unsuccessful DC demotion. Which, I suppose, is what I would have done had I had the opportunity to demote the DC's before this client cut the line. The article also has this warning:
"Caution The administrator must also make sure that replication has occurred since the demotion before manually removing the NTDS Settings object for any server. Using the Ntdsutil utility incorrectly may result in partial or complete loss of Active Directory functionality." Being a relative newbie to Active Directory management (but, just emerging from a pair of classes), I have to ask if there is an easier way to do this? We have about 800 users and 4 corporations on this wire, and they might get a bit testy if their computers stopped working all of a sudden! -- Larry Wahlers Concordia Technologies The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] direct office line: (314) 996-1876 List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
