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Make sure you clean out all references to the dead DC before promoing a new DC with the same name. If you're down to a single DC for the domain, you might want to consider bringing up another temporary DC with a different name until you get the cleanup done and have a chance to verify that all references to the old DC are gone. When that's done and the dust has settled, you can dcpromo the temporary DC back down. Hunter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] W2k3 AD DC DR - Need Immediate Help/Advice Importance: High Severe issue with and inability to recover (using Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2.2) one of our DCs that just happened to hold the three domain FSMO roles occurred yesterday. I've come to the conclusion that it is very, very unlikely that I'll be able to recover the system state, inclusive of AD system objects. The dilemma is as follows: I've seized the roles and 'technically' things appear to be okay. I need to recover this DC as soon as possible. I purposely haven't deleted the DC from the environment as I want to use the same name. I seem to remember that there is or was some issue with deleted a defunct DC and then turning right around and attempting to use the same name again, despite the use of GUIDs in AD replication. I'm hoping this is something that no longer applies or that I just misunderstood. But considering the potential impact I wanted to ask first. I'm about the crack open the whitepapers and also call MS to ask. Was hoping this would be a quicker route. TIA Eric Jones, Senior SE Intel Server Group (W) 336.424.3084 (M) 336.457.2591 www.vfc.com 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/ 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/
