I reuse DC names every time I do HW refresh and have renamed newly promoted DC's back to the name of the one that was removed when I had to run a site in parallel during HW refresh.
The thing you need to insure is that the metadata is cleaned up no matter and said cleanup is replicated whether you are doing it forcefully or gracefully, KB216498 explains the process in detail. You also need to take into consideration other services that may have been running on the failed DC, FSMO roles etc. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498/ -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server OS Reinstall I never reuse a DC name, even if I removed it gracefully. That may be a bit overkill, but I would strongly advise against reusing a name on a failed DC. You can clean it out of AD, and you will need to but I still wouldn't reuse the name. I have always done a manual removal with the info in this article: http://www.petri.co.il/delete_failed_dcs_from_ad.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:18 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Server OS Reinstall > > I've got a server (Server 2003 R2) that conked out on me over the > Christmas holidays. I'm not quite sure what went wrong--the hardware > seems to be okay. But there was some sort of corruption in the RAID > array and the OS gives a stop 0x00000024 every time it goes to boot. > > A fresh OS install won't be too painful, because this server was only a > DC/DHCP/DNS server. > > But my question is this... When I reinstall, should I give the server > the same name it had before? Or will that confuse Active Directory? And > if I give it a different name, how do I remove all references to the > old server name from AD? > > Just wondering what best practices are. Amazingly, I've never had to do > this before in my years as a sysadmin. Just lucky, I guess! > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
