demoting DC

[Guest]

Hello Everybody,

I got an issue with DC. I have 3 DCs for redundancy. One DC is not booting
due to some hardware failure. Other DCs try to replicate to that DC but it
gives error in event viewer. I want to remove the faulty DC from the forest
so that remaining 2 DC will talk to each other rather than looking for the
3rd one for replication.

Please let me know how to remove/delete the faulty DC entry from my DC.

Thanks in Advance

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

See these KB articles for the metadata cleanup process:

Q216498 - How to remove data in the AD after an unsuccessful DC demotion:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/4/98.ASP

Deleting Objects from Active Directory Using Ldp.exe:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q244344

Domain Controller Server Object Not Removed After Demotion:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q216364

Error Deleting a Domain Controller Account in Active Directory Users and
Computers:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q247393

Make sure to clean up WINS if you use it.

Regards,
/Jimmy