Child DC demotion

[Darshan Diora]

Hi
As suggested from newsgrp win200.DNS.
i have used dcpromo /forceremoval to demote my child DC. i have demoted the
domain, it showed active directory has been removed, restarted it, but still
under my parent DC there exist the entries of this child DC everywhere. i
tried cleaning with metadata cleanup after shutting down the demoted child
DC, it could not execute giving me an error as below

DsRemoveDsDomainW error 0x2162(The requested domain could not be deleted
because
there exist domain controllers that still host this domain

Regards
Darshan Diora

 

[Robert Eggleston [MSFT]]

Darshan,

Look for objects in the Configuration partition in the
LostAndFoundConfig container. This object will probably have a reference to
a domain controller in the domain that is to be removed. The attribute with
the reference is :
dn: CN=NTDSettings,CN=LostAndFoundConfig,CN=Configuration,DC=Domain,DC=Com

Use ADSI to delete the object and then retry the metadata cleanup