Have you run DFSRDIAG POLLAD
or restarted the DFSR services on the two servers in question, just in case? I’m wondering if the old 2008 R2 box isn’t looking at the new DC for updated info, or vice-versa. I think you’re already in the right place with ADSIEdit—strange it’s not there but still throwing new errors… http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server-2012/fixing-broken-sysvol-replication From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Re: DFS Replication errors after DC demotion On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: From my side, it looked as if result #5 in that search query should have been a link to an associated petri.com<http://petri.com> article. At the moment, result #5 from your original search link is a link to the Petri forum post I made this morning. :-) And no Petri results in the first 3 pages of search results from https://www.google.com/search?q=Replication+errors+after+DC+demotion Perhaps this is a better search for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+cleanup+a+removed+server+from+active+directory This search should have quite a few Microsoft articles for cleanup procedures. Even in a seemingly graceful demotion, things might not be so graceful behind the scenes, and you are left with extinct/widowed server metadata that requires cleanup. Yes, most of those cleanup articles say to use ntdsutil, and remove the old DC. Problem is, the old DC doesn't show up in ntdsutil. When I tell it to do metadata cleanup, use the connections menu, to list all servers in site, the old DC isn't listed there to be cleaned up. And in ADSIEdit: a. CN=Topology,CN=Domain System Volume,CN=DFSR-Globalsettings,CN=System,DC=Your Domain,DC=Domain Suffix b. Delete the msDFSR-Member CN object that has the old computer name. There is no msDFSR-Member with the old DC name, only the one current DC. I'd remove the old server as a DC if I could. But it seems to have been removed, as ntdsutil doesn't show it at all.
