Are you an Active Directory Guru

[mrphones]

I mean a guru???

If so, I need your help. Send me a PM if you have what it takes. An hourly rate awaits!! 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

The term guru is relative, no one will know if they know the answer to your question without having heard the question.

 

[mrphones]

This is true..

But so far all 10 people who have sent PM's haven't got back to me after I told them what I need done.

So here you go.. You can be #11 🙂

I'm looking for someone who is proficient in AD to remote into my network and clean up a 10 year old AD mess that was created and added to by people no longer with the company.

I need meta-data from old (out of production) servers removed. Servers that were not taken out of the domain correctly using dcpromo. I also need to make sure that all the AD servers are replicating across all regional offices correctly.

For the most part, the AD schema is fine and things are working ok, but there are some replication issues, mainly due to old servers still being in AD. I'm pretty good with AD, but haven't done a cleanup like this and not about to just "wing it" when I could make the problem worse.

I could simply just call MS and pay them, and I will if I can't find someone here on AT or [H] that wants to make some money. 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

Yup, call me ole #11. =) I've never done a meta-data cleanup either so I think you're still on your own.

 

[Genx87]

I am assuming you know the names of the dead servers due to the event's that are generated?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781245(WS.10).aspx

Read through the steps but step #3 is most lilely what you are looking for.

 

[mrphones]

I've read all these, it's a lot more complicated because of how replication was setup. All servers are still listed in AD sites and services.

I think paying MS is in my best interest, there are not to many people who have had to ever done this in real life. 🙂

Thanks for the replies..

 

[yinan]

removing the old metadata is easy. Done it a whole crapload of times.

 

[bigi]

I've done AD and Novell cleanups. I've written a few small pieces in perl to handle what was needed. I did PM you.