Well one interesting issue that has creeped up overnight. The Server2 DC which is now the only DC on the network fails Advertising on DCDIAG. It shows that its not part of the replica set doing a dfsutil
I have tried a burflags D4 but it's not even registering the change after a service restart. D4 stays in the registry. In the registry under NTFRS Parameter there is a registry key for cumulative sets but there is not anything under the regular replica set. This server2 is the exchange box, so I cant just stand up another DC, dcpromo this one down and backup.. There has to be a way to recreate itself in the replica set? Whats weird is that I have netlogon and sysvol folders, I can edit GP, but all of the machines and other member servers fail on gpupdates.. 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: Greg Sweers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server 2003 DC issues 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 ~ 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
