Shazaam...Well that's what I was watching when I realized an important fact.. THAT CAME FROM YOUR COMMENT ABOUT PICKING ONE AD or the other and nuking the other. Server2 had a completely intact AD from about 30 days ago. The changes on server1 were part of a failed 2008 upgrade, they had somehow disabled server2 during the upgrade. I basically shutdown server2 again, did a backup and then dcpromo server1 completely out of domain. Started up server2, seized roles... except schema master...
Somehow server2 went disabled in AD. Edited ADSI to reenable the computer account, rebooted. Seized schema, cleaned up AD from server1, purged DNS, checked DNS application partition and ran dcdiag and netdiag. All clean. Now to put server1 back in business and call it a night... Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server 2003 DC issues On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Greg Sweers <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah that's probably it, and I have cleaned up a lot of AD before, but > with Exchange as AD on one of them it's a bad deal. Fortunately they > are not doing much with IIS and Exchange so that's what I have seen > really screws up most, but time for a phone call.. Thx You might want to wait and see if Brian Desmond chimes in. He knows as much about Active Directory as just about anyone (he literally wrote the book on it), he may know of some better fix that's developed in the past ~7 years since I had to do this. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
