Active directory clean up.

Question

Do we have the steps defined which are recommended for the active directory cleanup?

Answer 1

Hi,
If you want to perform a cleanup after forced removal of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), there are 2 methods ,
The GUI way and the Command way.
You can refer to the following link:
Clean up Active Directory Domain Controller server metadata

Answer 2

You can follow along here to perform cleanup.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/deploy/ad-ds-metadata-cleanup
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/step-by-step-manually-removing-a-domain-controller-server/ba-p/280564

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Answer 3

What specifically are you trying to clean up? Metadata? Inactive users, computers, etc? Exp passwords?