What'd I do?

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:03 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:

>  <agreed on the subj line change Don>****
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> Kurt: After typing it, I almost clarified it but then decided to
> deliberately leave that open to interpretation. J****
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> *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:51 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: AD Washout****
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> Does that describe you or the spouse, and is it a good thing or a bad
> thing? :)****
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:25 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> *“*Allow Replication With Divergent and Corrupt Partner”****
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> I think this is on my marriage certificate…****
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> *From:* Dan Bartley [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:18 AM****
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: AD Washout****
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> Ok, this was it. I simply created the *Allow Replication With Divergent
> and Corrupt Partner* registry key set to 1, did a forced replication and
> it worked. Then returned the key to 0. Lots of posts about this appearing
> now. It was a USNO server reboot that reset itself to year 2000 after the
> reboot. Guess nobody bothered to check it for accuracy before putting it
> back online. Our government at work. After resetting the key to not allow,
> tried another forced replication and it worked. SCOM is now reporting AD
> functions and replication as ok.****
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> Thank you very much for finding that in the first 24 hours.****
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> Best Regards,
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> Dan Bartley****
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> *From:* Dan Bartley 
> [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 17:15
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: AD Washout****
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> Wow, thanks. This sounds like exactly what happened to us. I’ll follow the
> guides and see what happens. I’ll update back when done.****
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> Best Regards,
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> Dan Bartley****
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> *From:* Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 16:41
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: AD Washout****
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> Maybe a long shot, but check
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/11/19/did-your-active-directory-domain-time-just-jump-to-the-year-2000.aspx
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> *From:* Dan Bartley 
> [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:04 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: AD Washout****
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> No to these questions. ****
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> Actually it all seems centered around time sync problem that I have no
> idea the cause of. It seems the 2003 PDCe server developed a problem with
> access denied issues and that cascaded time sync errors to everything else.
> The 2 2000 DCs show the correct amount of uptime based on them being
> rebooted yesterday. The 2003 DCs however show correct time and date, but
> say uptime 4300+ days after their reboot. They are syncing with time server
> now, but clearly still have an issue. That is probably what is causing the
> one way replicate problem between just the 2 2003 DCs. I can actually
> replicate either one to a 2000 DC and then replicate that to the server
> that won?t replicate from the PDCe and changes show up. Still haven?t
> figured the best way to rectify the issue. I definitely do not favor a
> transfer of roles and dcpromo to demote and then promote again.****
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> Best Regards,
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> Dan Bartley****
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> *From:* Christopher Bodnar 
> [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 07:54
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: AD Washout****
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> Tombstonelifetime error makes me think this might be an issues with
> lingering objects. Were any of the domain controllers migrated from
> physical to virtual recently? Or restored from a backup? ****
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> *Christopher Bodnar*
> Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise
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> From:        "Dan Bartley" <[email protected]>
> To:        "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]
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> Date:        11/19/2012 09:51 PM
> Subject:        RE: AD Washout ****
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> No.
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> However, I just discovered that when I try to do a manual replication on
> one 2003 DC from the PDCe 2003 DC, I get an error that it can?t replicate
> due to tombstone lifetime being exceeded. It does replicate the other
> direction. I am not getting any Event errors in the Directory Service event
> log of either DC when I try the manual replication (such as 2042-which I
> did find references on).
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> Best Regards,
>
> Dan Bartley
> Director - Security, IT, Billing, A-R
> NetCarrier Telecom
> Phone: (877) 255-7733; Fax: (267) 638-0317; Direct: (215) 966-3310
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> *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *
> Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2012 21:37*
> To:* NT System Admin Issues*
> Subject:* RE: AD Washout
>
> Any new patches added just prior to this.
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> Jon****
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> Subject: AD Washout
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:31:10 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> I mostly watch and learn, but today a question. Today I had an issue I
> can?t find any reason for.
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> Mixed 2000-2003 domain. 2 of each. All the roles have been moved to the
> 2003 DCs, except time server. Fully patched.
>
> Out of nowhere I started getting SCOM alerts from 2 of the DCs that
> various DC functions were failing when contacting one of the 2003 DCs. The
> 2 2000 servers could be RDP, but not accessed via MMC for services, etc.
> from a Win7 workstation. I saw various KCC NTDS Replication related errors
> on one of the 2003 DCs. I could attach to them via RPC (MMC) though. One of
> the 2000 DCs is still the time server. Neither of the 2003 DCs could update
> time with it having a server error 5, access denied error. The other 2000
> DC could update time fine. Logins to various internal systems and DFS links
> started to fail with access denied errors.
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> Eventually I rebooted the 2003 DC with the PDCe role and everything
> started to come back. There were no Directory Service errors or warnings in
> the event log at or before this happened. At the time this started this DC
> had system errors that the other 2003 DC had a time in the future, however
> it did not. In the application log there were errors when it started for ID
> 1058, Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO?? and ending with
> ?(There is a time and/or date difference between the client and server. ).
> Group Policy processing aborted.?
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> All of the other DCs showed nothing other than the breakdown between them
> and this server. After the reboot all was well again. No performance issues
> for CPU, HDD or memory while it was going on. No services stopped.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on what might have caused this?
>
> *Best Regards,
>
> Dan Bartley*
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