After demoting a DC (sites and services)

Hi,
I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.

In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously no
replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
services?

Thanks,

Jorge
Tue Aug 12 04:16:20 PDT 2008

Hi
That's by design. The server must be manually removed from ADSS, make sure
that the server doesn't have NTDSSettings, if not it's safe to remove it.
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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services

Meinolf
Tue Aug 12 04:20:04 PDT 2008

Hello David,

If the machine is demoted, just delete it by hand.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi,
> I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.
> In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously
> no
> replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
> Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
> services?
> Thanks,
>

David
Tue Aug 12 04:30:11 PDT 2008

Thanks both.
I'll go in to sites and services and remov it then manually.



"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hello David,
>
> If the machine is demoted, just delete it by hand.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hi,
>> I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.
>> In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously
>> no
>> replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
>> Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
>> services?
>> Thanks,
>>
>
>

RandyH
Tue Aug 12 05:36:30 PDT 2008

That's pretty much what I am asking too...not sure why I got a lecture
about ADS when my question was just as simple.


David Naffy wrote:
> Thanks both.
> I'll go in to sites and services and remov it then manually.
>
>
>
> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:ff16fb66a63b68caca954417cb86@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> Hello David,
>>
>> If the machine is demoted, just delete it by hand.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.
>>> In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously
>>> no
>>> replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
>>> Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
>>> services?
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>
>

Zoey
Tue Aug 12 06:23:02 PDT 2008

Meinolf,

I'm getting ready to do my demotion today. You were very helpful in laying
out the procedure I need to follow. One thing you did not mention was the
manual removal of the DC after a successful demotion. I assume after
demoting a server to a member server, that the server would gracefully remove
from the ADSS. I guess this may not be the case, and I will need to manually
remove it from ADSS?

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> If the machine is demoted, just delete it by hand.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
> > Hi,
> > I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.
> > In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously
> > no
> > replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
> > Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
> > services?
> > Thanks,
> >
>
>
>

Jorge
Tue Aug 12 06:49:48 PDT 2008

Hi
-By design AD doesn't delete the servers in Active Directory Sites and
Services.
-They must be deleted manually.
-Before doing that make sure that no DC to be deleted has NTDSSettings
object under the server object.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services

Jorge
Mon Aug 18 13:42:36 PDT 2008

remove the server object manually after the demotion

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"David Naffy" <David Naffy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I did a DCpromo today on an old box that is being removed.
>
> In sites and services I can still see the server there (but obviously no
> replication partners). The dcpromo demotion was sucessful.
> Does it just take a while before it removes the object from sites and
> services?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>