Paul, You're correct, my appologies!
Denny At 10:27 AM 12/12/2001 -0800, Paul Markette wrote: >Dennis, > Thank you for your suggestion; your solution might work, except I am >concerned what will happen when I put the DC back in the original domain. >Consider the following scenario. > >Take DC1 and put it on the test network. >Bring up DC2 on the test network. >When I put DC1 back on the production network, it will have a DC2 object as >a domain controller, and try to replicate that info to the other production >DCs. >I should be able to demote DC1, but what will the production network do with >the DC2 info? > > The other problem is that the DC I need to remove from AD has >already been reformatted and repurposed, so I can't put it back in the >domain and demote it. I need to figure out how to manually cleanup AD. :-( > >Paul Markette >NT Systems Administrator >Epicentric, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(415) 995-7228 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:04 AM >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: Re: Removing a DC from AD > > >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] > >------ >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]
