Hi, Few days ago one of my ADC windows 2003 server crashed , due to which no problem in my network but some events are logged in event viewer for NTDS replication. As the replication of crashed ADC has failed to replicate to DC. Now I want to remove completely that crashed ADC from active directory which may also prevent the logging of such kind of events. DC is running on windows 2003 server. Please tell me how this process will go on, Regards Sunil

You can try following the procedures in KB216498. I would personally follow the adsiedit part of the article rather than trying to do it through NTDSUtil.

Hi, Thanks Johan. I had already tried that but it gives some obect not found error. Is there any utility to remove that object. Regards Sunil

Hi Sunil, My guess would be that NTDSUtil give you this error, am I correct? This would be because it cannot connect to a server which no longer exists on the network. The only work around is to find the objects in AD correlating to that server & delete them manually. To do this you need to have Support Tools installed on the server & Run ADSIEDIT.MSC then find the objects in the following trees & delete them: Configuration (Domain) > Configuration (CN=Configuration,DC=Domain,DC=Suffix) > CN=Sites >CN=Default-First-Site-Name >CN=Servers Delete the object with the RemovedServer Name here Domain(Server.Domain.Com) >DC=Domain,DC=Suffix > CN=System >CN=File Replication Service >CN=Domain System Volume (Sysvol Share) Delete the object with the RemovedServer Name here Allow your remaining DC's to complete replication & all should be dandy again.

thanks for reply