We have a namespace in our test environment called AppsData. It had 2 namespace servers, server33 and server66. Server33 was retired without my knowledge (as happens sometimes in our test environment). It is still showing in the DFS Management MMC even though I have deleted it from the MMC.
When I delete it from the MMC, I get the following warning "The namespace \\test.com\appsdata on server33 cannot be detected. The RPC server is unavailable. Do you want to forcibly remove the namespace server?" I click OK and the server disappears from the Namespace Servers tab. However, if I close down the MMC and re-open it, the server33 shows back up.
I have additionally removed the reference to server33 in ADSI Edit under the remoteServerName attribute for CN=AppsData,CN=Dfs-Configuration,CN=System,DC=test,DC=com for AppsData.
What am I missing here?