Sites renaming and impact on DNS

[JPJeffery]

Hello

Our Hong Kong office moved and as part of that we created a new AD Site called 'HongKongNew' with two new DCs for it.

Following the move the old DCs were moved to the new physical site (but not powered on).

After a while (too long!) we powered them up and did a force removal with the help of 'ntdsutil'.

To finish the tidy-up we then deleted the 'HongKong' site and rename 'HongKongNew' to 'HongKong'.

All looks fine except that a DNS Test (using Spotlight on AD) on HKDC01 reports "[tt]The domain controller is not advertising itself as a Global Catalog. The following SRV record was not found for hkdc02.domain.com: _ldap._tcp.HongKongNew._sites.gc._msdcs.domain.com[/tt]", and vice versa.

So, something thinks the site HongKongNew still exists, but drilling down through the DNS MMC shows no 'HongKongNew' site.

What gives? And how to fix it?

JJ
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