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Killing an Old Domain

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MasterPhil

IS-IT--Management
Jul 6, 2004
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I have two old domains on my Windows 2000/2003 network that are no longer used.

Looking at the notes from Microsoft it tells me that the only way to remove the domains from the network is to run dcpromo on the FSMO (domain controller) running Active Directory.

Now before I build a test server to check this all out, I have only ever used dcpromo to promote/demote a domain controller/member server.

Have I read Microsoft correctly or should I be doing this another way.

Phil
 
but yes.. all client machines that were members of the old domain - will have to join the new domain...

Alshrim
System Administrator
MCSE, MCP+Internet
 
Yee Haa,

I found a trust that I hadn't noticed before, and a server on the old domain out at an outlying office that I didn't know about.

Hope to kill the last NT4 box this week and say goodbye to the old domain!


Thanks for your help!
 
Woohoo!

Alshrim
System Administrator
MCSE, MCP+Internet
 
And just to confirm, I managed to get to the remote site on Friday afternoon. Server replaced and the domain now nolonger exists.

Yeeeehaaaaa
 
Well Done!

Robert Bentley

SynergyworksHosting.co.uk
"reliable services at realistic prices
 
Bring this back into life.

We killed our old domain and the NT4 servers, shut them down and all.
Just in case we would miss something, we kept the trust between new and old domain.
Now we know (?( that we got everything moved and don´t want the old domain to be mentioned ever again.

Kept getting Event ID 5719 on the new DC. ("There is no domain controller....") Which was absolutely true.

Now I found and deleted the trust between the old and new domain, on the new DC.

Will this end my 5719:s?
Will this be the end of the old no-longer-wanted domain?

 
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