Active Directory Cookbook for windows server 2003- P3:If you are familiar with the O'Reilly Cookbook format that can be seen in other popular books, such as the Perl Cookbook, Java Cookbook, and DNS and BIND Cookbook, then the layout of this book will not be anything new to you. The book is composed of 18 chapters, each containing 10-30 recipes for performing a specific Active Directory task. Within each recipe are four sections: problem, solution, discussion, and see also. | You will also want to remove any trusts that have been established for the domain see Recipe for more details . For more information on how to demote a domain controller see Recipe . Discussion The brute force method for removing a forest as described in the Discussion for Recipe is not a good method for removing a domain. Doing so will leave all of the domain controller and server objects along with the domain object and associated domain naming context hanging around in the forest. If you used that approach you would eventually see a bunch of replication and file replication service FRS errors in the event log from failed replication events. See Also Recipe for viewing the trusts for a domain Recipe for removing a trust Recipe for demoting a domain controller MS KB 238369 HOW TO Promote and Demote Domain Controllers in Windows 2000 and MS KB 255229 Dcpromo Demotion of Last Domain Controller in Child Domain Does Not Succeed Recipe Removing an Orphaned Domain Problem You want to completely remove a domain that was orphaned because This server is the last domain controller in the domain was not selected when demoting the last domain controller the domain was forcibly removed or the last domain controller in the domain was decommissioned improperly. Solution Using a command-line interface The following ntdsutil commands in bold would forcibly remove the domain from the forest. Replace DomainControllerName with the hostname of the Domain Naming Flexible Single Master Operation FSMO for the forest ntdsutil meta clean s o t conn con to server DomainControllerName q q metadata cleanup s o t list domains Found 4 domain s 0 - DC rallencorp DC com 1 - DC amer DC rallencorp DC com 2 - DC emea DC rallencorp DC com 3 - DC apac DC rallencorp DC com select operation target sel domain 2 No current site Domain - DC emea DC rallencorp DC com No current server 31 No current Naming .
