One DC has died. How to remove it from the DC quorum?

One of our 3 DC's has died. How can we demote/remote this DC from Active
Directory?

Thanks.

heidenau
Sun May 04 01:49:16 PDT 2008

Hello Derek,

you have to perfom a metadata cleanup with ntdsutil:

[How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain
controller demotion]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498/en-us

--
Viele Grü�e
Frank Röder
MVP Windows Server System - Directory Services
"Ex oriente lux"

Derek
Thu May 08 13:41:04 PDT 2008

That worked well. Thanks for your help.


"Frank Röder [MVP]" wrote:

> Hello Derek,
>
> you have to perfom a metadata cleanup with ntdsutil:
>
> [How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain
> controller demotion]
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498/en-us
>
> --
> Viele Grü�e
> Frank Röder
> MVP Windows Server System - Directory Services
> "Ex oriente lux"
>