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by mzee

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One of my domain controllers crashed and i was able to seize the five roles successfully. The problem i have is that the dc object is still listed in the active directory and iam gettting "NTDS KCC" replication errors because the other domain controllers still think that this server exist. i tried deleting the object but i get an error saying i can not delete a DSA object. Can someone help?

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by mikel~t

You should be able to use Ntdsutil to remove the DC object from Active Directory. Since you mentioned "seizing" the roles of the failed Domain Controller, I'm guessing you know how to use ntdsutil.

If you didn't use ntdsutil, then you probably want to use the good ol' help application that comes with Windows 2000, and do a search for FSMO roles, or using ntdsutil to remove the DC object.

If I remember correctly, the metadata cleanup is the option you want to use, and once you've specified the server, you should be able to kick that baby out of there.

Good luck.

Mike

by rkelly

You need to use NTDSUTIL for this as per the previous message.

You need to use the Domain Management, then Select Operation targeting context part of ntdsutil to firstly select the server then delete the server object. You need to connect to the domain, site etc,select the server you want to remove, then delete it. Once you have deleted the object from those containers you then need to do the Metadata cleanup that was mentioned in the above mail.

Hope that helps

by mzee

i have tried ntdsutil - domain management and metadata cleanup but no success, under connections, what server do you have to connect to ? Do i have to do the cleanup on safe mode or not?

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