We have mixed Windows 2003 an 2008 domain controllers. One of 2003 domain controllers has been offline for almost a year due to some network connectivity issue. Now I can bring it back to the network but my concern is that it may have exceeded tombstone period, and could cause problems in AD.
Now I like to remove this offline DC from the AD. My plan is to not to bother bring it online and go ahead with the manual removal procedure. Is it the best way at this point? If I run the metadata clean up, does it matter if I do this from 03 DC or 08 DC?
Thanks for any advice.
Calvin