I just was hired to take care of the network at a small university. While looking at some problems with exchange and DNS event errors, the new IT team we found that it was pointing to a non exiting server named NS01. Now there is an NS01B witch I think is its new incarnation that the old IT staff made. One other thing there is a DNS entry with an alias CNAME for NS01 to point to NS01B.
Now when I look at the other two servers that are they both have massive amounts of replication problems with the server that is gone. One of the largest problem is users not getting there network mounts to work and other odd problems. I did fine out that NS01 was the site FSMO and now this is making a mess of things also.
Now is there a graceful way of demoting NS01 and getting it out of my hair for good or am I going to have to do this the very hard way?
Any and all advice would be great.
Andy del Hierro
