Deji....

F:\DEV\cpp\ShrFlgs>adfind -schema -f ldapdisplayname=ridavailablepool
systemflags

AdFind V01.26.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) February 2005

Using server: 2k3dc01.joe.com
Directory: Windows Server 2003
Base DN: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com

dn:CN=RID-Available-Pool,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com
>systemFlags: 16


1 Objects returned



systemFlags of 16 breaks down to 0x10 - Indicates the object is a category 1
object. A category 1 object is a class or attribute that is included in the
base schema included with the system.

It would have to have 0x01 set in the system flags to prevent it from being
replicated.



Also here is a fairly useful KB http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305475


 

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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Error in PDC Operations Master

Something that confuses me in this (and in RID allocation generally) is:
 
Isn't the RIDavailablePool held by the RID master? Is the value replicated
among DCs? If it's not, does a DC have to check with the RID master BEFORE
it increments this value? (I assume that it would, but I am not sure,
especially if the RID master is not available).
 
Now, if you do an auth restore on a DC and you ask the DC to increment
RIDAvailablePool, and that DC is NOT the RID master, AND the RID master is
not available (for any reason), what happens then?
 
IF the RID master is not avialble and you seize the role, how does the new
role holder determine the current RIDAvailablePool?
 
I am guessing that all of the above is moot and RIDAvailablePool is
replicated in real-time among DCs. But ..... if it's not ......
 
Say DCa is the RID Master and it says that RIDAvailablePool is currently at
91000. Say DCb is currently given 89001-89500, DCc is given 89501-90000 and
DCd is given 90001-90500. Say a disaster happened and we need to do an auth
restore, but DCa is not recoverable. We take DCb, seize the role and did the
restore. Would the RIDAvailablePool (according to DCb) now be equal 90001?
 
Also, how does an out-of-band increase in RIDAvailablePool affect
RIDPreviousAllocationPool on other DCs in the domain? Do they all now
discard this pool and ask for a new batch from the new RID guy? Do they also
immediately junk their current RIDAllocationPool and get new ones?
 
Wish I understand the inner-workings of RID better.
 
 
Sincerely,

D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Sent: Thu 6/2/2005 7:55 AM
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Appologies accepted! No hard feelings! I also used the same environment to
test the ADMOD -undel option to undelete objects and it did not work
(already mailed Joe about it). However I must mentioned both the RID thing
and the ADMOD thing were tested on W2K3-R2!

Keeping my earlier statement in mind regarding the need to manually increase
the availableridpool on the new RID master after the seizure, I'm still
thinking about the value for the manual increase (like some kind of
formula)... Factors/variables that I believe have influence on the size of
the value:
* Pool of possible requested RIDs -> 500
* Number of DCs in domain or better yet the number of DCs that are used for
security principal creation (the DCs that use RIDs)
* ....?

If I come up with some formula I will post that on the list

Cheers
#JORGE#

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Sent: donderdag 2 juni 2005 16:24
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Tested this myself and reached the same conclusion you did.  I've since done
some digging and found a number of references to the 1 million increase, all
of which were in documents relating to Windows NT5.  I assume my memory has
yet again failed me :) since I can't even find any private up-to-date
material to validate it.

PS - Ironically, I did find a document that I wrote for a seminar just after
Windows 2000's release where I make a recommendation regarding increasing
the RID pool following role seizure ... maybe I knew it at one point or
another ... if I did, it probably got replaced by some other piece of
useless information since I believe my brain reached capacity some years
back.

Anyways, my apologies for causing you to waste so much time testing this, it
seems this was removed quite some time ago :(

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge de Almeida Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:09 AM
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Hi Dean,

As I mentioned earlier I did not know (never seen it before) about the
automatic increase of the ridavailablepool value with 1 million after the
rid seizure. I got curious and I built a small environment. I did not see
the ridpool got increased with 1 million after the seizure. I also got
different results depending on where the NEW rid master is located (SITE
WISE). See below. After the seizure the new RID master increased its known
pool with 500. Personnally I think that's not enoough... Especially in a
large environment

During the seizure the new to be RID master reports:
>>Searching for highest rid pool in domain

Can you elaborate more on the automatic increase of the availableridpool
attribute and when that happens?

Cheers
#JORGE#
#####################################
DCs: 01, 02, 03
01: site1 -> original rid master
02: site1
03: site2 -> new rid master after seizing

01: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
1073741823
2606

01: 3000 users created

01: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132426214
02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132426214
1073741823
5606
03:rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
1073741823
2606

01: down
03: seized rid master


03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423714 (increased with 500)
1073741823
3106

02: 1000 users created
02: replication forced
03: replication forced

02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132426214 <---???? (this value would not,
even after forcing replication!)
1073741823
5606
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132424714
1073741823
4106

02: 3001 users created

02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132427714 (this value only changes when the
value of 03 was higher than the previous value of 02!)
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132427714

#####################################
DCs: 01, 02, 03
01: site1 -> original rid master
02: site1
03: site1 -> new rid master after seizing

01: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214

03: disabled inbound REPL

01: 3000 users created

01: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132426214
02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132426214
1073741823
5606
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423214
1073741823
2606

01: down
03: enable inbound REPL
03: seized rid master

03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132423714 (increased with 500)
1073741823
3106

02: 1000 users created

02: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132427214
03: rIDAvailablePool: 4611686014132427214
#######################################


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Pinto
Sent: dinsdag 31 mei 2005 10:31
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Error in PDC Operations Master

Hi Dean,

You are right... That 1 million is enough. I did not know that when seizing
the RID master the ridavailablepool is increased automatically by 1 million.
Thanks for the info and sorry for the wrong info about the need to manually
increase the RID available pool.

Is the automatic increased somehow depended on another variable? (like
number of DCs and/or number of days or something else) Or is it a fixed
value?

Cheers
#JORGE#

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It's already increased by 1 mil. (IIRC) as part of the seizure process, do
you feel this is insufficient even when taking the replication outage into
account?

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-----Original Message-----
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Pinto
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 5:22 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Error in PDC Operations Master

Because you are seizing and not transfering and as the NEW Rid Manager
object may not be up-to-date on the remaining DCs (because replication
halted/stopped for some reason) you may want to increase the
Ridavailablepool attribute (on the Rid Manager object in the domain) for the
NEW RID MANAGER FSMO (just to be sure)

Cheers,
#JORGE#

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Yes, but a fleeting one in most cases.  You'll need to seize the roles
assigned to the errant DC.  In terms of who owns the roles, you are only
interested in the perspective of the other DCs.

The PDC FSMO serves many purposes and is indeed an important DC but even it
can tolerate downtime.

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Because I believe my errant DC to by my PDC will that be a problem demoting
it and then re-introducing it to the domain?

Here is a screen shot of my Operations Masters...
http://www.mjbdesignz.com/temp/OM.htm

Thanks,
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That's what I expected.

Choice 1 -
Mod. the registry and permit the errant DC to re-enter the replication
topology (not recommended)

Choice 2 -
Forcibly demote the errant DC, cleanup its metadata and reintroduce it
through DCpromo

Caveats -
Choice 1: lingering objects may exist
Choice 2: you'll lose any changes locally introduced to the errant DC that
occurred after its last successful replication attempt

?

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1. Number of DCs/Domain/Sites
        3 Sites
        -> Site A has DC1 & DC2
        -> Site B DC3
        -> Site C DC4

2. OS version of DCs
        -> All DCs are running Windows 2003 Server Standard

3. Are the remaining DCs replicating successfully?
        -> According to DC diag they all passed replications
        -> They do all show in the DC diag the following:
            DC=domain,DC=ewu,DC=edu
               Last replication recieved from DC2 at 2005-03-23 02:00:40.
               WARNING:  This latency is over the Tombstone Lifetime of 60
days!
Thanks,
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-----Original Message-----
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It seems the FSMO errors you're receiving are merely symptoms of another
more significant problem; my guess is that your DCs have been ignoring one
another for quite some time, i.e. - not replicating.

Before proceeding, can you give me some more info. -

1. Number of DCs/Domain/Sites
2. OS version of DCs
3. Are the remaining DCs replicating successfully?

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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Error in PDC Operations Master


Well, I have quite a few weird things going on.

Roles: (both DCs in same site)
DC2 = PDC role, RID pool manager
DC1 = Infrastructure owner, schema owner, domain role owner

When I look at the Operations Masters...
-> from DC1 It shows ERROR for RID & PDC, & shows DC1 in Infrastructure 
-> from DC2 it shows ERROR for PDC, & shows DC2 for RID & DC1 for
Infrastructure

So neither DC1 or DC2 know who the PDC is. (It should be DC2)

When I use the "netdom query fsmo":
-> from DC1 it shows the roles as it should like above from DC2 it shows 
-> the PDC role as DC1 rather than itself


1. When I try to manually replicate from DC2 to DC1 I get an error about
"Target Principal Name Incorrect"
After completing Article ID 288167 about resetting password (netdom
resetpwd) and trying to replicate, I get a tombstone error between the 2
domains saying it has exceeded tombstone lifetime and cannot continue.

2. When I try to manually replicate from DC1 to DC2 I get the same error
about "Target Principal Name Incorrect" but this is where I've stopped
because DC2 is supposed to be the PDC and the KB article makes it sound like
the PW should only be reset on the non PDC machines.


All in all, my PDC seems to have amnesia and doesn't seem to remember that
it's the PDC


Thanks,
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Matt Brown
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Specialist Eastern Washington University


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What does the machine question report within its event log?

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My Dcdiag output shows the following error:
#############################
      Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders
         Warning: STF2 is the PDC Owner, but is not responding to DS RPC
Bind.
         [STF2] LDAP bind failed with error 8341,
         A directory service error has occurred..
         Warning: STF2 is the PDC Owner, but is not responding to LDAP Bind.
         Warning: STF2 is the Rid Owner, but is not responding to DS RPC
Bind.
         Warning: STF2 is the Rid Owner, but is not responding to LDAP Bind.
         ......................... STF1 failed test KnowsOfRoleHolders
      Starting test: RidManager
         ......................... STF1 failed test RidManager
    
         Starting test: frsevent
         There are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after
the
         SYSVOL has been shared.  Failing SYSVOL replication problems may
cause
          Group Policy problems.
         ......................... STF1 failed test frsevent
      Starting test: FsmoCheck
         Warning: DcGetDcName(PDC_REQUIRED) call failed, error 1355
         A Primary Domain Controller could not be located.
         The server holding the PDC role is down.
         ......................... domain failed test FsmoCheck
############################# Thanks,

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:12 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Error in PDC Operations Master

Hi,

My PDC just started acting up and is showing an error in the PDC box under
Operations Master.

The only recent change that I can think of to the server was I uninstalled &
re-installed the Certificate Authority 3 or 4 times, which was installed on
the PDC.


Thanks,
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