"Ghost" DC Still Showing Up

I'm trying to eliminate AD replication problems we're having. After
searching various forums I ran the LDIFDE utility and came back with the
following results. My problem is that this server (ghostserver) does not
exist anymore. The machine was demoted and removed from the domain several
weeks ago. How can I delete this entry? Any help would great be
appreciated.


dn: CN=ghostserver\0ACNF:ea976bf3-fb37-4de8-b027-94ee547cfe52,OU=Domain
Controllers,DC=child,DC=domain,DC=com
changetype: add
servicePrincipalName: exchangeAB/ghostserver.child.domain.com
servicePrincipalName: exchangeAB/ghostserver
servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child
servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver
servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com
servicePrincipalName:
ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child.domain.com
servicePrincipalName:
ldap/0b91889b-c4e5-4a69-a1e6-8cffd0949456._msdcs.domain.com
servicePrincipalName: HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child
servicePrincipalName:
HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child.domain.com
servicePrincipalName: GC/ghostserver.child.domain.com/domain.com
servicePrincipalName:
E3514235-4B06-11D1-AB04-00C04FC2DCD2/0b91889b-c4e5-4a69-a1e6-8cffd0949456/child .domain.comservicePrincipalName: NtFrs-88f5d2bd-b646-11d2-a6d3-00c04fc9b232/ghostserver.child.domain.comservicePrincipalName: HOST/ghostserverservicePrincipalName: HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com

TalioGladius
Tue Mar 25 09:18:50 PDT 2008

Hi. Try doing a metadata cleanup through ntdsutil to remove all entries of
it.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/012793ee-5e8c-4a5c-9f66-4a486a7114fd1033.mspx?mfr=true



"Mark McCurdy" <gmmccurdy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4B48C094-91CF-496E-916A-643856BF9E33@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to eliminate AD replication problems we're having. After
> searching various forums I ran the LDIFDE utility and came back with the
> following results. My problem is that this server (ghostserver) does not
> exist anymore. The machine was demoted and removed from the domain
> several weeks ago. How can I delete this entry? Any help would great be
> appreciated.
>
>
> dn: CN=ghostserver\0ACNF:ea976bf3-fb37-4de8-b027-94ee547cfe52,OU=Domain
> Controllers,DC=child,DC=domain,DC=com
> changetype: add
> servicePrincipalName: exchangeAB/ghostserver.child.domain.com
> servicePrincipalName: exchangeAB/ghostserver
> servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child
> servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver
> servicePrincipalName: ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com
> servicePrincipalName:
> ldap/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child.domain.com
> servicePrincipalName:
> ldap/0b91889b-c4e5-4a69-a1e6-8cffd0949456._msdcs.domain.com
> servicePrincipalName: HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child
> servicePrincipalName:
> HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com/child.domain.com
> servicePrincipalName: GC/ghostserver.child.domain.com/domain.com
> servicePrincipalName:
> E3514235-4B06-11D1-AB04-00C04FC2DCD2/0b91889b-c4e5-4a69-a1e6-8cffd0949456/child
> .domain.comservicePrincipalName:
> NtFrs-88f5d2bd-b646-11d2-a6d3-00c04fc9b232/ghostserver.child.domain.comservicePrincipalName:
> HOST/ghostserverservicePrincipalName: HOST/ghostserver.child.domain.com

Florian
Tue Mar 25 10:31:22 PDT 2008

Howdie!

Mark McCurdy schrieb:
> I'm trying to eliminate AD replication problems we're having. After
> searching various forums I ran the LDIFDE utility and came back with the
> following results. My problem is that this server (ghostserver) does
> not exist anymore. The machine was demoted and removed from the domain
> several weeks ago. How can I delete this entry? Any help would great be
> appreciated.

Was it successfully demoted? If it'll never come back (as your
demotion-effort lets assume), you can try a metadata cleanup:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498

cheers,

Florian
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