Possibly stupid questions but did you allow time for replication to occur
before adding the 08 machine?  Is the new machine showing up as in the
correct site?

Jon

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Win2K8 R2 machine was a member of the domain prior to promotion.  I ran
> adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep /gpprep on a DC that is located in
> a different site which holds all 5 FSMO rols.
>
> Jimmy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:40 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: adding second dc to site
>
> How exactly did you add the new server? Was the Win2k8 R2 machine a
> member of the domain when you promoted it? Did you do the necessary
> ADPrep on the Win2k3 DC beforehand?
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 15:26, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> >
> >
> > I just added a second DC (server 2008r2) to my existing windows server
> 2003
> > network.  When I look at security log on the new DC, I don’t see any
> > activity from any other users or computers beside the DC itself (auditing
> > enabled).  I took down my primary DC in my site and the secondary DC did
> not
> > authenticate anyone/anything.  What could be wrong?  If there are two
> DC’s
> > in one site, how can I get the authentication to work on both DCs?
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help is appreciated
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
> >
> >
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