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Thanks. &nbsp;I figured I was suffering from a case of IGQ &nbsp;(Improperly Googled Query). &nbsp;I never would have thought to look of an &quot;extinct&quot; or &quot;orphaned&quot; domain.
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Thanks.  I figured I was suffering from a case of IGQ  (Improperly Googled Query).  I never would have thought to look of an "extinct" or "orphaned" domain.

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One of my fellow IT'ers was playing around with my domain settings (don't blame me; I didn't give him admin rights!). &nbsp;He had set up a play server with the contoso.com domain, then established a trust between that play domain and my real-life, production domain. &nbsp;(Tree-root trust type, BTW). &nbsp;Now he's wiped out that play server, but he left the trust in place. &nbsp;It's generating all sort of errors in AD, trying to access a domain that no longer exists.<br />
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I can't delete the contoso.com domain from within the AD Domain and Trusts tool (probably because that domain no longer exists). &nbsp;So how do I remove the domain by hand? &nbsp;Thanks
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One of my fellow IT'ers was playing around with my domain settings (don't blame me; I didn't give him admin rights!).  He had set up a play server with the contoso.com domain, then established a trust between that play domain and my real-life, production domain.  (Tree-root trust type, BTW).  Now he's wiped out that play server, but he left the trust in place.  It's generating all sort of errors in AD, trying to access a domain that no longer exists.

I can't delete the contoso.com domain from within the AD Domain and Trusts tool (probably because that domain no longer exists).  So how do I remove the domain by hand?  Thanks

Can't delete trust to a non-existant domain

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