Child domain without DCs

[Vicente Zambrano]

Help!!
Somebody has had the "brilliant idea" of removing domain
controllers with "dcpromo /forceremoval" in orther to
remove a child domain and now my organization has a
childomain which domain controllers don't exist.

I tryed to remove this child domain manually by following
the instructions "Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
230306: How To Remove Orphaned Domains from Active
Directory" but i got the error DSRemoveDsDomainW 0x2162
which indicated that no domain controllers have been
founded.

What can I do to remove completely this child domain from
my org?

I'm not interested in recover this child domain.

I'll relly appreciate your help.

 

[Herb Martin]

Help!!
Somebody has had the "brilliant idea" of removing domain
controllers with "dcpromo /forceremoval" in orther to
remove a child domain and now my organization has a
childomain which domain controllers don't exist.

I tryed to remove this child domain manually by following
the instructions "Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
230306: How To Remove Orphaned Domains from Active
Directory" but i got the error DSRemoveDsDomainW 0x2162
which indicated that no domain controllers have been
founded.

You first remove each of the DCs then the Domain.

If the DCs are still listed it probably is trying to contact
"them" to get them to do it.

 

[Guest]

There's no more DC for this Child domain, but when they
depromoted the DCs (with dcpromo /forceremoval)the child
didn't disappear. Somehow the replication never worked out
with the parent and that's the problem, we're actually
trying to remove this child.

What can I do?

 

[Herb Martin]

There's no more DC for this Child domain, but when they
depromoted the DCs (with dcpromo /forceremoval)the child
didn't disappear. Somehow the replication never worked out
with the parent and that's the problem, we're actually
trying to remove this child.

What can I do?

Same thing I said before, use NTDSUtil to FIRST remove the
DC (ghost) objects in a manner similar to removing the (ghost)
domain.

Search Google for Microsoft's KB:

[ ntdsutil "metadata cleanup" remove domain dc microsoft: ]