We had a dirty shutdown on a DC a few days ago, and it would not boot back up successfully. We called MS PSS before we took any recovery measures since this was our first dead DC.
After some initial troubleshooting, MS recommended that we manually remove the server from AD with ntdsutil and rebuild. One thing they mentioned is that all DC's need to fully replicate to learn of the DC removal before rebuilding it with the same name and IP. Otherwise, they said we would have an identity crisis on our hands. Since we have our last seven DC's that we built at corporate in route to remote locations... I guess we'll have to wait. My question is have any of you guys had to do this? And have you used the same name and IP for the server? Did you in fact wait for all DC's to be online and fully replicate? And for you real AD guru's out there, what are the details behind the possible "identity crisis"? Thanks, guys. -Rick Dayton __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
