I'm running several 2012r2 servers in several remote offices. I replicate folders back to the home office for backup to tape. I had to move the location of the replication folders in the home office, so I deleted the replication groups and recreated them to point to the new server/folders.
Now I am having troubles getting some of the folders to replicate. I am also getting event logs saying that replication service failed to communicate with partner XYZ (events 5008 and 5012), but member XYZ is no longer a member and does not appear in the DFS manager as being in a replication group.
I guess the first thing I want to do is clean up old AD entries for the deleted replication groups and members, but I don't know where to begin.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/2463ce92-7767-4135-b8c7-31c736bdabc2/orphaned-dfs-namespace-how-to-remove