BlogCast: Removing an Orphan ntdsDSA Object from Active Directory
I’ve finally been persuaded to record my own blogcast instead of persuading Ewan to talk for me. I’ve been asking my colleagues in the product team if they’d like to do some blogcasts, and they've told me that they'd be glad to – but only after I've actually recorded one! So here it is…
I used the settings that John Howard blogged about to get the file size down. I've created a 4 minute blogcast and the file size is 400k (thanks John!). John has done several blogcasts with incredibly low file sizes...
This topic today is how to remove an orphaned server from Active Directory by using the ntdsutil metadata cleanup utility. Metadata cleanup allows you to remove the NTDS settings object of the failed server. This utility allows you to replace a failed Exchange server in your organisation with another server and use the same name as the failed server. This is really useful in disaster recovery scenarios. it's a bit of a dry subject though, and the demo is all in the command prompt - but it's important all the same. I now need to think of something more zingy for my next one! Exchange database maintanance. Now that will get you going!
There are links to other blogcasts here.