Hello... i have a windows 2003 R2 SP2 domain, i have main domain and 4 subdomains, one of the subdomains "subdomain02.maindomain.com" domain controller was damaged and not recoverable, i need to remove the subdomain02 reference from the active directory but i can't delete it nor cancel the trust relation to it, how i can delete the subdomain permently.Thank youSamer

Follow the instructions in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230306 You may need to manually clear out some of the DNS zone info afterwards. Tony

Hello try this to remove the naming context etc..http://www.isaacoben.com/2009/07/04/how-to-remove-child-domain-and-other-naming-context-from-forest-root-domain/Isaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE

Hi Samer, Did you had a chance to go through the suggestions provided by Isaac and tony ?Solutions Architect