01-06-2009 06:24 AM
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01-06-2009 11:00 AM
01-06-2009 07:24 AM
I JUST did this exactly on BE 12.5 and it worked perfectly. I would stop all services on every BE server you have, CLOSE any media server applications anywhere, delete that BESERVER ad object, force replication, and wait a few hours, then try to restart the BE services.
If for any reason those objects are not really gone from AD when you start BE, it will probably find them and repopulate the list, or if the application is open, I suspect it may write the list back as you exit.
01-06-2009 08:58 AM
The old entries I'm seeing in the connect to list don't appear to be coming from Active Directory, but seem to be on my local PC only. I say this because another PC I use the Remote Admin on do not have these entries, and neither do the media servers. Only one PC has them.
I attempted to uninstall BE Remote Admin from the PC in question, and this didn't succeed. it didn't produce any errors, but the entry for BE is still in Add/Remove, and there's still a ton of files in the BE folder. I used the latest doc from Symantec that I could find to manually remove BE. (Doing a reinstall and another uninstall didn't work). Even having done the manual uninstall, there were still a LOT of old entries in the registry for Backup Exec, going back a few versions even.
After wiping out as much as I could, and doing a fresh install of BE RA 12.5, and then LiveUpdate, I'm back where I started, with 2 extraneous entries in the connect to list.
I guess I'll just have to add this to the growing list of things that just aren't right with BE, and put up with it.
01-06-2009 10:40 AM
That is actually good news regarding AD. At least you know it is local now.
Is there a chance you had a local version of SQL Server or SQL Express that could be holding the entries?
I can't tell for sure from what you said, but did you search the registry for the string containing the non-existent server name? I could interpret your comment two ways.
I would also do an advanced file search by hitting F3 for *.* containing text "servername" (minus the quotes). Check out the files that are returned.
01-06-2009 11:00 AM