disconnected domain controller

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In sites and services I have a server that is in a paritcular site, but
nolonger running(1.5yr).

My question is: I found the server that was removed, would it be safe to
bring up the domain controller in the domain after a year of not being on,
and run a dcpromo
and then delete it?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory (More info?)

First, you do not want to bring a server online that has been out of
replication for more than 60 days, which is the tombstone lifetime for
deleted objects. That has potential to cause some irritating issues.
Here are some articles that talk about that...

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;317097
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;870695


If your goal is to remove the server from AD all together, then you do
not need to bring the server back online just to do the dcpromo to
remove it. You can follow the steps in the following article to do a
metadata cleanup of the object from Active Directory and this will
remove all references to that Domain Controller.

How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain
controller demotion
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;216498

Jason wrote:
> In sites and services I have a server that is in a paritcular site, but
> nolonger running(1.5yr).
>
> My question is: I found the server that was removed, would it be safe to
> bring up the domain controller in the domain after a year of not being on,
> and run a dcpromo
> and then delete it?
>
>
>