I have a DC that crashed. It doesn't hold any of the fsmo roles. I was going to demote it anyway. So, I pulled it off the network and want to clean up AD.
I ran ntdsutil on one of my other DC's. When I get to select operation target and enter list domains, I get Not connected to a server - use connections.
The server is on the network and I have no connectivity issues, why do I get this message? I tryed it on more than one DC, I get the same message... Tell
me what I need to post so you can help.
I have checked out this info on how to do this:However, I don't understand all of the cn= stuff. I'm not sure what goes where. I've never done this before. Please help.
Remove selected server
cn=servername,cn=servers,cn=sitename,cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=<forest_root_domain>
We only have one Domain. The server to remove is 41-server-1 or 10.3.41.240.
It was at our Edgefield site... Note: The DC's are not in the DC OU, they are in a OU called servers which are in the domain in an OU called library systems, inside of an OU called servers. I don't know if this matters. I just no that it causes some test to fail when I run dcdiag.exe.
Regards,
DJ
It was also used for DNS and DHCP, so any info or links on how to remove it
from them would be great too!
This is my first time doing this so please bare with me. Thanks! DJ
I ran ntdsutil on one of my other DC's. When I get to select operation target and enter list domains, I get Not connected to a server - use connections.
The server is on the network and I have no connectivity issues, why do I get this message? I tryed it on more than one DC, I get the same message... Tell
me what I need to post so you can help.
I have checked out this info on how to do this:However, I don't understand all of the cn= stuff. I'm not sure what goes where. I've never done this before. Please help.
Remove selected server
cn=servername,cn=servers,cn=sitename,cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=<forest_root_domain>
We only have one Domain. The server to remove is 41-server-1 or 10.3.41.240.
It was at our Edgefield site... Note: The DC's are not in the DC OU, they are in a OU called servers which are in the domain in an OU called library systems, inside of an OU called servers. I don't know if this matters. I just no that it causes some test to fail when I run dcdiag.exe.
Regards,
DJ
It was also used for DNS and DHCP, so any info or links on how to remove it
from them would be great too!
This is my first time doing this so please bare with me. Thanks! DJ
