Had 3 domain controllers, 1 failed yesterday
Best way to remove this from AD? obviously i cant boot it up and demote it. I was going to run the ntdsutil on the other 2 and remove metadata? Do i need to remove anything from sites/services or anything or will that take care of it? it was 2003.
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Clean up server metadata: Active Directory
I worked at an agency that had several DCs tombstone because of bad (international) connection issues, so I have done this quite a few times.
Yes you can do this during production, and it shouldnt take very long at all. Its just a series of commands youll run. Follow the instructions listed on the TechNet site.
ntdsutil: metadata cleanup
metadata cleanup: remove selected server tcs-dbc
Binding to localhost ...
Connected to localhost using credentials of locally logged on user.
LDAP error 0x22(34 (Invalid DN Syntax).
Ldap extended error message is 0000208F: NameErr: DSID-031001BA, problem 2006 (BAD_NAME), data 8350, best match of:
'CN=Ntds Settings,tcs-dbc'
Win32 error returned is 0x208f(The object name has bad syntax.)
)
Unable to determine the domain hosted by the DC (5). Please use the connection m
enu to specify it.
Disconnecting from localhost...
metadata cleanup: connection
server connections: connect to server tcs-dbc
Binding to tcs-dbc ...
DsBindW error 0x6ba(The RPC server is unavailable.)
server connections: quit
metadata cleanup: quit
ntdsutil: quit
Thanks!