Remove dead DC from AD

[cc929]

Hi All,

We have Domain with two AD servers. THe one acting as the secondary AD server failed and we do not wish to repair or restore. Is there any way (complex or simple) that we can tell the ROOT AD server that the secondary AD server is not long available or to be used and make it go back to working as if it is the ONLY AD server?

I've removed backup AD servers before but it was always planned so we demoted them or returned them to app server status while they were up and running. We've never just removed it or had one permenantly fail to the point we had to go back to the root AD and try to manually remove it from there.

DO you know if this is a simple thing. Is it as easy as going into the active directory under DOMAIN CONTROLLERS and delete the entry for the secondary AD server??? Somehow I doubt that it is that easy but thought I'd ask!

Thanks for any feedback you can provide


cc929

 

[markdmac]

Super simple. Skip to the end of my FAQ faq96-4733 and grab the script there. When run it will give you a list of DCs and you can pick the one to remove. It will then clean it out of AD for you. You will want to follow up by removing it manually from your DNS.

If the bad DC held any FSMO roles make sure you have seized theose to another DC and be sure that if it was a Global Catalog you have set another DC to be the GC as well.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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