Retired domain still remains in AD

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Thomas

I've just upgraded an old NT4 domain into Windows 2000 and
AD. Everything works as it should.

However, in AD, there still remains an old server from
waaay before my time. It looks like it was hosting another
domain name that hasn't been operative for years.

When I try to delete the server from AD I get the error
message "The DSA object cannot be deleted". I've searched
the Internet and found that I could do a metacleanup (or
something like that).. but this doesn't work since the
server hasn't been active for years. The ntdsutil want to
contact the server, but it can't...

Anybody have some ideas about this?
 
Hello Thomas,

Please use this article to get rid of the old domain:

230306 HOW TO: Remove Orphaned Domains from Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230306

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Hello Mohanchand

As I wrote in my first mail I've tried this before :)
However, I tried it again with the same result. It
couldn't find the domain.

I am able to contact the FSMO server, but when I
write "list domains" then I only get my current domain in
the list. And I don't want to delete that.

Have any more clues?

Thanks,
Thomas
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Hello Thomas,

Please use this article to get rid of the old domain:

230306 HOW TO: Remove Orphaned Domains from Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230306

--
Regards,
Mohanchand Koduri [MSFT]

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I've just upgraded an old NT4 domain into Windows 2000 and
AD. Everything works as it should.

However, in AD, there still remains an old server from
waaay before my time. It looks like it was hosting another
domain name that hasn't been operative for years.

When I try to delete the server from AD I get the error
message "The DSA object cannot be deleted". I've searched
the Internet and found that I could do a metacleanup (or
something like that).. but this doesn't work since the
server hasn't been active for years. The ntdsutil want to
contact the server, but it can't...

Anybody have some ideas about this?
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