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I got no reaction in the german newsgroup, so I try here, too.
We had to reinstall the server at a customers branch office site. I first
demoted the old server, deinstalled all services like DNS, WINS, DHCP and
reviewed the AD at the other sites. I deleted the A-record in DNS and wait
for a while to ensure replication. Additional it took about 4 hours to
install the new server with all updates, drivers and applications. It was
late night, so no traffic on the net and fast replication intervalls are
active. I tried dcdiag and netdiag on the DCs at the main site and all other
branch office sites and everythings seems to be ok.
After that I promote the new installed server (same IP, same name). Dcpromo
didn't notified me of any error. I installed and registerd DNS, WINS and
DHCP, run dcdiag and netdiag without any problem. A fast check at the main
site: everything seems to be ok.
The next day I looked closer and found some replication errors and other AD
concerning errors in the event logs. There seems to be a DNS problem. Using
the mmc I found the site and the DC listed in
domain/_sites
domain/DomainDnsZones/_sites
domain/ForestDnsZones/_sites
domain/_msdcs/gc
What makes me nervous is that I cannot find either the site nor (of course)
the DC in
domain/_msdcs/dc.
However this happens: How do I get the site back again?
I consult all KB articels the w2k3 help system links to when clicking the
link for the events in the event log, but no article has something to do with
my problem, most of them nor with w2k3. Any suggestions?
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Read inline please.
In news:01A851A0-7193-40B3-ACB8-91AB08A63C87[ at ]microsoft.com,
Frank Hartmann <fh(at)bcs-mail.de.nospam> typed:
[Quoted Text] > I got no reaction in the german newsgroup, so I try here, too.
>
> We had to reinstall the server at a customers branch office site. I
> first demoted the old server, deinstalled all services like DNS,
> WINS, DHCP and reviewed the AD at the other sites. I deleted the
> A-record in DNS and wait for a while to ensure replication.
> Additional it took about 4 hours to install the new server with all
> updates, drivers and applications. It was late night, so no traffic
> on the net and fast replication intervalls are active. I tried dcdiag
> and netdiag on the DCs at the main site and all other branch office
> sites and everythings seems to be ok.
>
> After that I promote the new installed server (same IP, same name).
> Dcpromo didn't notified me of any error. I installed and registerd
> DNS, WINS and DHCP, run dcdiag and netdiag without any problem. A
> fast check at the main site: everything seems to be ok.
> The next day I looked closer and found some replication errors and
> other AD concerning errors in the event logs. There seems to be a DNS
> problem. Using the mmc I found the site and the DC listed in
>
> domain/_sites
> domain/DomainDnsZones/_sites
> domain/ForestDnsZones/_sites
> domain/_msdcs/gc
>
> What makes me nervous is that I cannot find either the site nor (of
> course) the DC in
> domain/_msdcs/dc.
>
> However this happens: How do I get the site back again?
> I consult all KB articels the w2k3 help system links to when clicking
> the link for the events in the event log, but no article has
> something to do with my problem, most of them nor with w2k3. Any
> suggestions?
First use dcdiag /fix and netdiag /fix, then use
dcdiag /e /c /q >C:\dcdiag.txt and
netdiag /q >C:\netdiag.txt
These two tests log errors only.
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > First use dcdiag /fix and netdiag /fix, then use
> dcdiag /e /c /q >C:\dcdiag.txt and
> netdiag /q >C:\netdiag.txt
> These two tests log errors only.
Thank you for your reply.
I already did that without any helpful information. Either the tests did not
find any error or the information generated was no information for me. I
discoverd whole KB and techNet to find out what
test syslog:
an error event occured EventID 0x40011006 (EventString could not be retrieved)
and
an error event occured EventID 0xC00A0032 (EventString could not be retrieved)
means. Is there any list of events or is this a MS secret?
I now demoted the DC and deleted all metadata of the DC and its site by
hand. After a night for replication I promoted it again and created the site.
Everything is fine now, but the other DCs report an unspecified DNS error in
AD once when booting up. Additional the two events noted above are reported
running dcdiag.
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Read inline please.
In news:B5B3A115-0943-4B3E-9A1D-1C4D441A0440[ at ]microsoft.com,
Frank Hartmann <fh(at)bcs-mail.de.nospam> typed:
[Quoted Text] > "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:
>> First use dcdiag /fix and netdiag /fix, then use
>> dcdiag /e /c /q >C:\dcdiag.txt and
>> netdiag /q >C:\netdiag.txt
>> These two tests log errors only.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
> I already did that without any helpful information. Either the tests
> did not find any error or the information generated was no
> information for me. I discoverd whole KB and techNet to find out what
>
> test syslog:
> an error event occured EventID 0x40011006 (EventString could not be
> retrieved) and
> an error event occured EventID 0xC00A0032 (EventString could not be
> retrieved)
> means. Is there any list of events or is this a MS secret?
Therse are only dcdiag messages saying dcdiag could not retrieve the event
details, you can still look in the System Event log on the DC that reported
these.
Dcdaig tries to retrieve all event log errors for the past hour, sometimes
the errors are benign errors, but you just have to look.
>
> I now demoted the DC and deleted all metadata of the DC and its site
> by
> hand. After a night for replication I promoted it again and created
> the site. Everything is fine now, but the other DCs report an
> unspecified DNS error in AD once when booting up. Additional the two
> events noted above are reported running dcdiag.
If you have multiple DCs with DNS installed and you have a DC that uses only
it own address for DNS, (Does not list other DCs for alternate DNS) The DC
that uses only it own address in a multiDC environment will log DNS errors
at start up, because it is aware of other DCs with DNS, and expects to find
the AD zone at startup. It can't find the zone, but it knows it should, but
it can't because AD has not loaded the zone yet on its own DNS server.
In a MultiDC environment each DC should use another DC for the Preferred DNS
and itself for Alternate DNS.
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