For many of our clients, this is not a big deal…. however recently i was involved in an AD upgrade for an environment with 100’s of sites… and this environment being…. not well kept… wasn’t surprising that many “old” DC entries did not clean up nicely.

With that in mind, it was time to pull out my terrible powershell skills (and ask one of my guys for help when i got stuck)

This client has a couple of forward of lookup zones, but 100’s of reverse lookup zones…. so in order to ensure the name server was gone from all of these zones i used

Get-DnsServerZone -ComputerName <Name of DNS Server> | where {$_.IsReverseLookupZone -eq “True”} | ForEach-Object {Try {Remove-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName $_.ZoneName -RRType “NS” -RecordData “<name of the old server i wasnt to remove witha . at the end” -Name “@” -force} catch {“$_”}}

For cleaning out the sites i then used

Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ComputerName <Name of DNS Server> -RRType “SRV” -ZoneName <name of zone> | where {$_.RecordData.Domainname -like ‘*servername*’} | Remove-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName <name of zone> -force

if you want to check (without removing) – or simply verify… run

Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ComputerName <Name of DNS Server> -RRType “SRV” -ZoneName <name of zone> | where {$_.RecordData.Domainname -like ‘*servername*’}