Yep - FSMO roles and the simple existence of a DC for replication purposes have
no real relationship. You have to clean up both.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Metadata cleanup after a seize (was Error seizing schema master
FSMO role...)
On 11/18/2010 3:07 PM, Kramer, Jack wrote:
Now that raises an interesting question - what metadata cleanup is typically
required after a role seizure?
You have to remove the non-existant DCs. You can't DCPROMO them down from being
DCs, since they don't exist. :-) And you can't ignore them, otherwise AD spends
all it's time trying to re-connect and replicate with its' lost brethren. So
you have to tell AD to forget them.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498
How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller
demotion
Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
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From: Mike Leone [oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Error seizing schema master FSMO role in Win2003 AD -
RESOLVED
Don't ask me to explain it, but I logged out of the domain admin
account, and logged in as another account (which is *also* in the
Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins groups, exactly like
the domain administrator account).
And it worked perfectly, exactly as it should. Huh?
I had even waited up to an hour, re-trying the command, thinking it
was just the fact that it was trying to replicate (and couldn't). Weird.
Anyway, off to do the child domain (seizing schema *first* this time,
I think :-)), and then to do the metadata cleanup ...
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