Dead Domain Controller

[James Blair]

I tried posting this in the server group, to no response, thought I'd try it
here:

While I was out of town last week, one of my Domain Controllers had two
disks of a three disk RAID go belly up. Luckily, this box was merely for
fault tolerance and had no effect on operations, other than filling the logs
with replication failure notices, it does leave me with a problem. As the
box is unrecoverable (and past it's prime anyway), I never got a chance to
demote it. So now I am stuck with an comptuer account in AD for a DC that
no longer exists. I removed the box as a replication partner to stop the
error messages, but is there anything else I should do or be aware of?


Thanks,

James Blair

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

I tried posting this in the server group, to no response, thought I'd try it
here:

While I was out of town last week, one of my Domain Controllers had two
disks of a three disk RAID go belly up. Luckily, this box was merely for
fault tolerance and had no effect on operations, other than filling the logs
with replication failure notices, it does leave me with a problem. As the
box is unrecoverable (and past it's prime anyway), I never got a chance to
demote it. So now I am stuck with an comptuer account in AD for a DC that
no longer exists. I removed the box as a replication partner to stop the
error messages, but is there anything else I should do or be aware of?

Check this KB.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498

If You have Windows 2003 Sp1 box in Your domain I strongly advice You to
use ntdsutil form this box - as You can see in this KB this simplifies
whole procedure.