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kalel17
Copper Contributor
Jan 10, 2024

Question on Deleting Orphaned Domain Controller 2012 R2

We currently have our Domain Controllers with 2012 R2 installed (Have project underway to upgrade to 2019). There is one DC that has been offline for 3 months and wanted to know rather than turning it back on and running DCPromo, I had planned on using Active Directory Users & Computers to delete the Domain Controller. My question is will that take care of deleting all the metadata so I don't have to worry about running NTDSUTIL utility?

 

Thx in advance for any assistance given.

  • Alban1998's avatar
    Alban1998
    Iron Contributor
    Hello, if you choose the corresponding option from ADUC/ADAC it will also handle metadata cleanup indeed.

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