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Removing DC

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by jahmez

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How do you remove a win2000dc. it was acting as domain controller for our mixed envirnment of 20 winnt4 BDC servers and a couple of win 2000 svrs. A hard disk failed and so was replaced by a new svr..

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by ewgny

He can't DCPromo, since the DC failed and was replaced. When that happens the Computer object remains in AD and can only be removed by using
NTDSUTIL

by rob v.o.

Use DCPROMO on the W2K server. It will require you to have admin priviledges in the domain, and will uninstall the DC.

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