Paul, While this is not a solution to your direct problem, it may work. Bring up a second DC in your test network. Move the problem DC back to the production network, run dcpromo to demote the machine, remove the machine from AD, move the machine back to the test network and run dcpromo again.
A bit of a kludge, but it might solve your problem. Dennis Depp Oak Ridge National Lab At 09:31 AM 12/12/2001 -0800, Paul Markette wrote: >Hello All, > I thought it would be a really smart move to DCPromo a server, then >put it on a physically separate network so that I can have a copy of the >production directory for testing. The problem is, since I didn't demote the >server before physically moving it, I can't get it out of AD. I followed >Q216498, which describes "How to remove data in the active directory after >an unsuccessful domain controller demotion", but I can't find anything about >how to forcibly demote the DC object. I used NTDSUTIL to remove the NTDS >Settings object, deleted the server object in Sites and Services and cleaned >up DNS, but I still cannot delete the DC object in Users and Computers. I >get the error "The DSA object cannot be deleted." The only article I can >find on Micro$oft's site re: this message is Q216364, which covers the issue >where you cannot delete the DC object from Sites and Services, which doesn't >apply to me. > The problem is that this is affecting replication. The other DC's >are trying to replicate with the ghost DC and failing. Does anyone have any >info on how to completely remove a DC from AD? I would greatly appreciate >any resources that you could point me to. > >Thank you, > >Paul Markette >NT Systems Administrator >Epicentric, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >415-995-7228 > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
