IIS and SMTP - Deleting defunct old domain from former domain controller

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Deleting defunct old domain from former domain controller

Hawaii Harrison

2005-12-25, 5:50 pm

The only Windows 2000 domain controller for domain1.com was demoted to a
standalone server and then joined to a different domain2.com as a member
server. Now I have an old defunct domain of the form GUID._msdcs.domain1.com
(as in 28c4da36-2993-46c2-ab6f-4edb581b2b1d._msdcs.domain1.com) buried
somewhere in the machine and I want to get rid of it.

I know the defunct domain is still around because when I open the Internet
Services Manager MMC, expand the SMTP Virtual Server, and look at the list of
Domains, I see the expected "servername.domain2.com" (the FQDN of the server)
listed with "Local (Default)" as the Type, but I also see a second entry
"28c4da36-2993-46c2-ab6f-4edb581b2b1d._msdcs.domain1.com" listed with "Local
(Normal)" as the Type. That extraneous Local domain, which no longer exists,
is not a SMTP Remote or Alias domain so it cannot be deleted from the SMTP
domain list. Its presence on the list simply shows that it's still somewhere
in the server's records; the server seems to think it's a valid local domain.

I've searched the Registry as well as every file on the machine for that old
domain string and I can't find it so I can't delete it. Can someone tell me
where the SMTP Virtual Server domain list gets its list of Local domains and,
even better, how I can track down all evidence of the defunct old domain name
on the server and delete it?

PeterD

2005-12-26, 5:55 pm

You may want to repost this in a more appropriate group, this one is
for NNTP/SMTP (news and mail) not domain issues.

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:56:02 -0800, Hawaii Harrison
<hawaiiharrison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>The only Windows 2000 domain controller for domain1.com was demoted to a
>standalone server and then joined to a different domain2.com as a member
>server. Now I have an old defunct domain of the form GUID._msdcs.domain1.com
>(as in 28c4da36-2993-46c2-ab6f-4edb581b2b1d._msdcs.domain1.com) buried
>somewhere in the machine and I want to get rid of it.
>
>I know the defunct domain is still around because when I open the Internet
>Services Manager MMC, expand the SMTP Virtual Server, and look at the list of
>Domains, I see the expected "servername.domain2.com" (the FQDN of the server)
>listed with "Local (Default)" as the Type, but I also see a second entry
>"28c4da36-2993-46c2-ab6f-4edb581b2b1d._msdcs.domain1.com" listed with "Local
>(Normal)" as the Type. That extraneous Local domain, which no longer exists,
>is not a SMTP Remote or Alias domain so it cannot be deleted from the SMTP
>domain list. Its presence on the list simply shows that it's still somewhere
>in the server's records; the server seems to think it's a valid local domain.
>
>I've searched the Registry as well as every file on the machine for that old
>domain string and I can't find it so I can't delete it. Can someone tell me
>where the SMTP Virtual Server domain list gets its list of Local domains and,
>even better, how I can track down all evidence of the defunct old domain name
>on the server and delete it?

Harrison Klein

2005-12-26, 5:55 pm

Since I wanted to know where the SMTP server stored its list of domains, I
thought someone reading the SMTP group might know. I also posted in a couple
of other groups I thought might be appropriate. After I posted, I uninstalled
and reinstalled all of IIS and the mystery domains disappeared. So they must
have been stored in some file or registry entry related to the SMTP server
but in a way that couldn't be found through a text search.

"PeterD" wrote:

> You may want to repost this in a more appropriate group, this one is
> for NNTP/SMTP (news and mail) not domain issues.
>
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:56:02 -0800, Hawaii Harrison
> <hawaiiharrison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>