DCPROMO /FORCEREMOVAL

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i have questions about this article 332199 and 216498, if i have one of the Domain controller can't demote itself for any reason and i went ahead to fdisk the server without graceful demote, can i use the /forceremoval switch to clean the orphan domain controller and do i still need to use ntdsutil to metadata cleanup ?
 
You will need to run ntdsutil to perform metadata cleanup to remove the
orphaned DC object on the remaining "good" DC. DCPROMO /FORCEREMOVAL only
removes AD from a server which will not demote gracefully and does not
notify its upstream replication partners that it is no longer a DC.

hth!

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
Directory Services

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i have questions about this article 332199 and 216498, if i have one of
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the Domain controller can't demote itself for any reason and i went ahead
to fdisk the server without graceful demote, can i use the /forceremoval
switch to clean the orphan domain controller and do i still need to use
ntdsutil to metadata cleanup ?

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