Hi All,
I inherited a network with a fairly poor DFS Domain based configuration as follows (with no replication):
2x DCs, (DC01(FSMO RoleHolder) & DC03)
1x Storage Server (NAS03)
All servers are 2012R2
DC01 was the name space server pointing at folder targets on NAS03, DC01 failed taking down the namespace, I siezed the roles on DC03, did a metadata cleanup to get rid of DC01, re-installed Windows on DC01 &
promoted it again, the namespace then begun to work again but it was unmanageable so I followed someone's recommendation
to remove the namespace using ADSIEdit & Regedit
I have created a new namespace with a new name (I kept getting an error that the configuration couldn't be read from AD when trying to re-use the old name) and that functions fine however the old namespace still allows users to access files on it, the DFS console doesn't show it if i try to find namespaces to display.
any ideas how I can get rid of the old name space and any comments on if there was a better way to deal with the old one? (other than the obvious have more than 1 namespace server!)