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kalel17
Jan 10, 2024Copper Contributor
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.
- Alban1998Iron ContributorHello, if you choose the corresponding option from ADUC/ADAC it will also handle metadata cleanup indeed.