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Hi All,

I am trying to remove an orphaned sub domain from my forest, but to no avail.

When I try to demote the DC using DCPromo, I get the error "the role owner attribute could not be read.".



I have attempted to do a metadata cleanup usind NTDSUtil, but this fails with the same error message.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

I received this messahe" The role owner attribute could not be read" when tried to add new attribute to Active Directory schema.

Do you have solve your problem because i have the same error message with an orphaned domain in win2K AD.

This is indicating that the FSMO role owner of the Schema Management can't
be found. You need to make sure that a DC is the Schema Master. There are a couple of ways to do that... one easy way is to get into the Schema snap-in
to view who is the Schema master.

Regards,
Timm Herget
Adiscon

What schema snap in? Just checked and there is no such thing.
Thanks,
Paul

you have to register dll from command prompt by typing
regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll