Domain trust deletion

[AGraham]

Hello,

I've just recently started a new job and am going to through trying to familiarize myself with the network. I came across a trust that was broken. Come to find out the, the domain listed is no longer online. I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to delete the trust. I've used the ntdsutil to perform a metadata cleanup but of course I can't connect to the domain in order for it be listed to select deletion. We're using Windows Server 2003 and I've searched high and low for an answer. I appreciate whoever takes the time to read this and respond. Thanks. Al

[mtdmitchell]

Try going into adsiedit.msc and removing the trust from AD manually - im sure you can view the trust and remove it from there , i will have a look at work tomz to confirm. Other wise you might have to leave it - its not doin any harm is it? probably annoying though.

[sukh]

Hi

 

Try to use the command below

 

netdom trust TrustingDomainName /d:TrustedDomainName /remove /UserD:User/PasswordD: /force

 

Enter the appropiate details in the Trusting and Trusted domain. The force parameter should remove all metadata and trusts for domains where the DC cannot be contacted or has been decomm'ed.

 

Sukh

[AGraham]

Well, I appreciate the help. Turns out that we're upgrading and doing fresh installs soon so I've been told we're not going to worry about it. Thanks for all the help and good information.