DFS clean up

Hi all,

We have domain dfs setup \\domain-name\patch

I've ran the following command: dfsutil /view /root:\\domain-name\patch

and I get back a list of all the servers something like this:-

Target Server="Server01" Folder="Patch" State="2" [Site: (null)]
Target Server="Server02" Folder="Patch" State="2" [Site: SiteNumber1]

When I checked Server01 it is an old server that has been retired from the
network/domain.

So two questions:-
1) How do I clean up these retired servers that are no longer available?
2) What process should be done before retiring a server that is part of the
dfs?

--
James Lunardi

Thanks I will try that and add the second answer to our documentation for
retiring a server. Cheers.
--
James Lunardi


"Isaac Oben [MCITP, MCSE]" wrote:

> James,
>
> 1) If the retired server is offline for good, then you will have to
> forcefully remove dfs from the console (if it still exists) by going
> through the Administrative tools, and right click and delete. If the
> server is still online you can go to the folder and delete all files.
> Another option a little longer is that you can export your entire
> domain dfs to an xml file, search and delete the "Target
> Server="Server01" Folder="Patch" State="2"" and then perform an import
> to push the change. (I will perform this mostly if I have lots bad
> links in dfs that I can't seem to find in the console, normally in a
> large dfs environment)
>
> 2) Before you retire a server with dfs root share, you need to remove
> dfs from the server
> dfsutil.exe /remftroot /server:name of server /share:name of share.
> this command will remove the dfs root and then you can take the server
> offline after that.
>
>
>
> Isaac
>