DC failure with the PDC emulater

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Randy

I have a DC that failed and could not be brought back on
line. I have 2 DCs', when I tried to promote the
secondary DC only 3 of the roles were transferred, the
Domain Naming master and Relative ID master will not. I
have installed a new server with a different name and
transferred the 3 roles but the old server is still
listed in "Domain Controllers". When transferring the
Schema master it shows the current focus as the new
server but it also shows the old server is off line, when
I try to delete the old server I receive "DSA object
cannot be deleted". How do I get all 5 roles back on
line, and then delete the old server. I am not sure what
I am doing wrong but any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you.
Randy
 
using the ntdsutil at the "list domains" prompt I
recieved "found 1 domain"
0 - DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx
When I select site 0, I recieve "no active site list"
How do I work around this, or can I?
Randy
 
Hi Randy. I think you missed step 9 in the article. After you do "list
domains" and it shows 0 - DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx, DC=xxx,
the next command is "select domain 0".

After that, the next commands will be:

"list sites"
"select site x" (x is the number next to the site you want to select)
"list servers in site"
"select server x"
"quit" (this should bring you back to the metadata cleanup menu)
"remove selected server"
 
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