Add DC back to Active Directory? After server failure.....

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Ben Sizemore

We lost one of our DC's due to a fire,... we rebuilt the
server from scratch and want to name it the same as the
old server....

Will the AD accept it, or do we need to delete it from
the AD first....
 
You MUST delete it from the AD first if you intend to
DCPROMO it back into the domain. If you are going to
restore it from backup then you must leave it in AD. The
recommended procedure is to delete it from AD and DCPROMO
it back in. To delete it you must use the command line
tool NTDSUTIL. Simply deleting it from AD U&C isn't
enought.

Pete
 
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