Hi Chris, If you have a backup of that domain - restore.
If you don't have a backup, and it was the fist domain in the forest (forest root) then create a new forest and migrate step by step every of the existing domains into the new forest (ADMT or other migration tools from 3rd party vendors will help you here). If it wasn't the forest root domain which blow up, you are able to recreate the domain (under a different name) in the same forest, then you might be able to use the domain rename tool to put the domains which were underneath your lost one underneath the new one. If domain rename will not work, you'll have to create those domains new as well and migrate the ressources of the old domains into the new ones (ADTM or some other migration tools again). The Domain rename depends on your OS and forest and domain level - if it is WS2k3 Native this might be an possibility. However I've never tried what domain rename does if a domain is missing in the forest. If you don't migratie everything into a new forest you'll also have to perform a metadata cleanup. At what time is to be considered in a test environment. If you are able to clean the old domain out of the forest right away and the downlevel domains will still work you'll have much less problems with everything else, and the domain rename tool will work for sure (if you don't have any other stuff which prevents you from using that). Good luck, and remember afterwards that 2nd DCs and Backups are your best friends ;-) Ulf B. Simon-Weidner -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chris Jones Gesendet: Samstag, 8. Mai 2004 01:13 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [ActiveDir] Hi guys, I need some help here. We have a single forest with 2 domain trees. One of the domain trees has includes domains. One parent domain and 2 child domains. All three domains have one DC. A few days ago, the DC from the parent domain stopped working because of some h/w issues. So, the whole AD environment is screwed up. I’m trying to install another DC for the same domain but it fails. Guess it tries to connect to the faulty DC. I cannot remove that domain as it has 2 child domains. Would it be possible to create another domain tree and change the parent domains for those 2 child domains? Any suggestions on how I can solve this problem?? Chris _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/ direct/01/ 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/
