It was added in the 2008 tools. If you delete a DC object in ADUC the same UI 
gets presented.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Best way of removing non-existent DCs in a testing situation

Interesting, never tried that, will have to.

Kudos,

Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
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-----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.


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