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Our new PDC is not communicating with the domain. The old DC has been removed by previous admin.
Please assist...
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Hi,
We haven't heard from you in a few days. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
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Thanks.
Hello
Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.
If the old DC has been removed, you can clean the metadata first and then promote a new dc with the same name and Ip.
Clean up AD DS server metadata | Microsoft Learn
I hope the information above is helpful.
Best Regards,
Yanhong Liu
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