Running Windows Server 2012.
I recently renamed the domain for several reasons which isn't that important at the moment, using this guide: http://www.trainsignal.com/blog/rename-active-directory-domain which worked perfectly from a VM setup but I did not have any custom GPO defined in the VM.
The group policy managment had a Software Deployment object that I created with a couple of *.msi packages under the old domain name.
While renaming the domain from a machine not a PDC, I had to run a gpfixup /olddns:<dnsname> /newdns:<dnsname> but that command would always cause the process to crash.
So I logged into the server and ran GPupdate, it works, but it still tries to find the old GPO with a unique ID {6CA..........} and I located that in the AD administration and deleted the child objects for machine and user. Then I ran a gpupdate again and it still tries to apply that old GPO that no longer exists.
I went to the event viewer and the GPupdate actually succeeds, but for that one GPO it fails because it's still looking for it. How can I permanently remove any reference to that GPO when performing GPupdate?
I can't seem to remove the {6CA........} object from the AD administration or delete it physically from the sysvol folder cause it's protected.
What can I do?