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> Directory Services Question 0 Sign in to vote Dear All, I am having a Child domain X, error joining domain the specified domain either while trying to promote a additional domain controller for that “X” domain getting the error message “The specified user already exists”. Please note previously we had a domain controller
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with the same name, after demoting that domain controller now we are promoting a domain controller with the same name and IP in a different VM. I tried to find out if any dns entry is there in all the domain controllers but could not find any thing with the same name. Also tried with ADSI Edit error joining domain network path not found but could not find any entry with the same domain controller name. We have more than 12 Domain controllers for this child domain is there any way which we can find out where is the entry exists if that is causing the problem? Please help Monday, November 02, 2009 12:35 PM Reply | Quote Answers 0 Sign in to vote Please perform the metadata cleanup to remove all the traces of the GC which was not performed graceful demotion http://www.petri.co.il/delete_failed_dcs_from_ad.htm Regards, Krishna http://smtpport25.wordpress.com Proposed as answer by Krishna.Kumar Monday, November 02, 2009 5:53 PM Marked as answer by Bruce-Liu Monday, November 09, 2009 3:16 AM Monday, November 02, 2009 5:51 PM Reply | Quote All replies 0 Sign in to vote Did u tried deleteing the computer account object from the domain controllers ou within the active directory ?? Monday, November 02, 2009 12:53 PM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Syed,Thanks for the reply. But unfortunately we have tried to find out the object in Domain Contro
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Join Today Products BackProducts Gigs Live Careers Vendor Services Groups Website Testing Store Headlines Experts Exchange > Questions > cannot join domain computer name already exists Cannot join domain as member server "Specified user already exists"?? Want to Advertise Here? Solved Cannot join domain as member server "Specified user already exists"?? Posted on 2007-11-09 Windows Server 2003 Active https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/621af3e7-161c-42fb-aa18-028a36ecade2/the-specified-user-already-exists-while-promoting-a-domain-controller?forum=winserverDS Directory DNS 2 Verified Solutions 9 Comments 10,406 Views Last Modified: 2008-05-31 Hello! Have a 2003 server which was an AD server and was demoted and was still a member of the domain. After some time, was unable to login to the domain, so have been logging in locally. For some reason, the server cannot see the rest of the domain. DNS on this server https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22951196/Cannot-join-domain-as-member-server-Specified-user-already-exists.html wasnt pointed to itself and had since been corrected. (does a DNS server have to be an AD controller?- does this have to "propogate"?) I saw somewhere with a similar problem that it should be unjoined and rejoined, however, get this error, that the "user already exists". I am assuming its not the "user" but the computer name in AD. so I located it in AD and deleted it. Then went to re-join, and rec'd the same error. Is there anywhere else I need to delete or tell the system / AD this server is no longer part of the domain so it can rejoin? Am I missing something else? Thanks! 0 Question by:Lorenzo Cricchio Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google LVL 30 Best Solution byLauraEHunterMVP Confirm that all metadata associated with this server's domain controller account has been successfully removed, as follows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498 Go to Solution 9 Comments LVL 30 Overall: Level 30 Active Directory 27 Windows Server 2003 23 DNS 6 Message Accepted Solution by:LauraEHunterMVP2007-11-09 Confirm that all metadata associated with this server's domain controller account has been successfully removed, as follows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498 0 LVL 5 Overall: Level 5 Active Dir
Sunday, May 23, 2010 NOTE: After demoted Secondary AD because of replication failure(run dcpromo /forceremoval), The same http://shebangme.blogspot.com/2010/05/join-domain-specified-account-already.html Secondary machine can't rejoin Primary. http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=2042&eventno=3428&source=NTDS%20Replication&phase=1http://us.generation-nt.com/replication-tombstone-lifetime-has-expired-help-67877472.html=================================================================How can I manually delete a server object from the Active Directory database in case of a bad DCPROMO procedure? http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=771445 MS KB 216498 has more info: The DCPROMO (Dcpromo.exe) utility is used for promoting a server to a domain controller and demoting a domain error joining controller to a member server (or to a standalone server in a workgroup if the domain controller is the last in the domain). As part of the demotion process, the DCPROMO utility removes the configuration data for the domain controller from the Active Directory. This data takes the error joining domain form of an "NTDS Settings" object, which exists as a child to the server object in the Active Directory Sites and Services Manager. The information is in the following location in the Active Directory:CN=NTDS Settings,CN=, CN=Servers,CN=,CN=Sites, CN=Configuration,DC=... The attributes of the NTDS Settings object include data representing how the domain controller is identified in respect to its replication partners, the naming contexts that are maintained on the machine, whether or not the domain controller is a Global Catalog server, and the default query policy. The NTDS Settings object is also a container that may have child objects that represent the domain controller's direct replication partners. This data is required for the domain controller to operate within the environment, but is retired upon demotion.In the event that the NTDS Settings object is not removed properly (for example, the NTDS Settings object is not properly r
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