I asked about this is the Exchange forums but this is probably gotten to the point of being an AD thing.
We have AD 2003 forest root with two child domains. One of those domains is completely offline. All the servers were shutdown. No backups available and will never come online again. I need to delete the domain and clear the users out of the GAL. Deleting the domain with NTDSutil seems simple enough but there will be other stuff left over that I cant clean without getting to a DC in the screwed up domain.
The suggestion was to create a new DC for that domain and then properly shut it down. Problem is how do you join a domain that doesnt have any DCs?