I'm getting an error ("The directory service is missing mandatory configuration information, and is unable to determine the ownership of floating single-master operation roles") when trying to run dcpromo to demote a domain controller. Searching around I found and article pointing me to use dsquery to see what server held the fsmo role for infrastructure. Low and behold it still is pointing to an old server even though I have verified all 5 roles are pointed to live servers.
So at this point they suggest going into ADSIEDIT and just updating the role holder. When I try and do that I get the error
Operation failed. Error code: 0x202b
A referral was returned from the server.
0000202B: RefErr: DSID-03100742, data 0, 1 access points
ref 1 : 'DomainDnsZones.domain.local'
More research tells me my ForestDnsZone and DomainDnsZone containers in DNS are bad. They suggest deleting and re-creating. For obvious reasons I'm a little worried about doing this. The forward Lookup Zone these two containers are in is set to Replicate to all domain controllers (Windows 2000 compatibility) which I don't need but never updated.
Is it safe to delete and recreate these zones or should I switch replication and see if that does anything?