Interesting, never tried that, will have to. Kudos,
Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation On 12/1/2010 9:44 AM, Don Guyer wrote: > Yeah, you're going to have to do it "manually", NTDSUTIL. Once you do > this 2-3 times, it becomes second nature and isn't very time consuming. > > Just be careful and read your commands before entering them. > Heh. Actually ... I found that if you go into Sites&Services, and hilight the "NTDS Settings" under the dearly departed server names, and right-click and say DELETE ... it comes up with a window, telling you you are trying to delete a DC. And 3 options ... the last of which is "this server is permanently offline". If you choose that, the "NTDS Settings" then get deleted, and *then* you can delete the server from Sites and Services. So that's what I did. I will *also* do the manual metadata cleanup (if it's even needed), and remove the A records in DNS, and the records in _msdcs (as the 1st article recommends). And then the ADSIEDIT to remove old computer records, as the second article recommends. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
