Yep - FSMO roles and the simple existence of a DC for replication purposes have no real relationship. You have to clean up both.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Metadata cleanup after a seize (was Error seizing schema master FSMO role...) On 11/18/2010 3:07 PM, Kramer, Jack wrote: > Now that raises an interesting question - what metadata cleanup is typically > required after a role seizure? You have to remove the non-existant DCs. You can't DCPROMO them down from being DCs, since they don't exist. :-) And you can't ignore them, otherwise AD spends all it's time trying to re-connect and replicate with its' lost brethren. So you have to tell AD to forget them. See <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498> "How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion" > ---- > Jack Kramer > Computer Systems Specialist > University Relations, Michigan State University > w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 > ________________________________________ > From: Mike Leone [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Error seizing schema master FSMO role in Win2003 AD - > RESOLVED > > Don't ask me to explain it, but I logged out of the domain admin > account, and logged in as another account (which is *also* in the > Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins groups, exactly like > the domain administrator account). > > And it worked perfectly, exactly as it should. Huh? > > I had even waited up to an hour, re-trying the command, thinking it > was just the fact that it was trying to replicate (and couldn't). Weird. > > Anyway, off to do the child domain (seizing schema *first* this time, > I think :-)), and then to do the metadata cleanup ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
