On 12/1/2010 9:59 AM, Don Guyer wrote: > Interesting, never tried that, will have to.
Yeah, I had never done it this way, either. But afterward, when I went into NTDSUTIL and went to do the metadata cleanup, all of the servers were already gone from all the sites. Who knew? :-) > > 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 > ~ 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
