Unable to demote DC

[austin]

Hi there:

I have a server, recently was decommissoned, but forgot
to demote it as a DC, now my replication got errors.

1) how can remove it from my AD?

Pls help

Thanks
Austin

 

[Sabin Nair[MSFT]]

Hi Austin,

Assuming your question was: There are two DCs (atleast) and one of them has
errors in FRS logs (maybe others too) after unplugging one of the DCs, you
would need to remove the metadata of the old DC:

216498 HOW TO: Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain
http://kb/article.asp?id=Q216498

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Thanks
Sabin Nair M.S(Computer Engg.), MCSE, MCSA
Directory Services Team
Microsoft Corp.

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[Marius]

Use "ntdsutil" in recorery mode.
About utils read in http://support.microsoft.com
Marius