AD Sites and Services lists DC that you can't see via ntdsutil

Discussion in 'Software' started by Leehaa, Jun 28, 2011.

  1. Leehaa

    Leehaa Gigabyte Poster

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    Hey all,

    Long time no speak - hope everyone's okay!

    I'm currently going through our AD and noticed that when you do an nslookup on the root of the domain, it returns the DCs that are expected. However, when you go into AD sites and services, under a site and then look at the servers there is one extra server that shouldn't be there anymore. It was successfully demoted (as in demoted and confirmed successful on DC and then left about a week before being destroyed).

    ...so I went into ntdsutil to do a metadata clean up and remove the server but it isn't listed in there either!!

    Any suggestions? Where would Sites and Services be getting the reference from??


    Cheers,
    Lee
     
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  2. Sparky
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    Right click and select delete no?
     
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    does it show up in ADSI Edit
     
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  4. zebulebu

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    Not done it for a while, but from memory, after running a metadata cleanup you also need to delete the server object from Sites & Services. You should also clean up all the srv records from DNS
     
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  5. onoski

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    Considering you've carried out all the usual's I'd check to make sure replication is working correctly on your DC's. Also check event viewer for errors etc and run "Repadmin /syncall" on your PDC.
     
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  6. Leehaa

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    ...thanks all.

    I was reluctant to just delete as concerned it hadn't been cleaned up properly.

    repadmin /replsum and the commands mentioned above mention healthy replication, so I guess in this case it will have to be deleted...checked dns records again, as per Zeb's reply and can't visibly see traces of it anywhere else...
     
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  7. Shinigami

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    A metadata cleanup does not remove the server object from Sites & Services. It must be deleted manually. A reverse DCPromo probably behaves the same way (can't remember for sure, been a while since I had to do this).
     
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  8. Leehaa

    Leehaa Gigabyte Poster

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    Thank you for your reply!
     
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