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I have a running Win 2012R2 Active Directory server. Call it DC1
I just built a Win 2019 server that was added to the domain and promoted to AD server. This one is DC2
I ran "Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole" to the new server and running "netdom query fsmo", I get
Schema master...
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DC1 And DC2
DNS replication fails between the two DC.
The directory service cannot replicate with this server because the time since the last replication with this server has exceeded the tombstone lifetime.
schema and configuration is successful.
Both DC has the same...
I need reset DFSR on windows 2016 std replicated with a windows 2012 std
It's really slow, it's working since 5 years and the db probably is too large
How can I reset it without loose everything?
I am trying to update GPOs on the client end. I keep running into an error.
C:\Users\jharmon>gpupdate
Updating policy...
Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file...
Hi all,
At the moment we have 4 domain controllers. In the past someone deleted a domain controller (web-arr) in the wrong way. No we have a problem wit DFS for the sysvol replication.
When I run "Create Diagnostic Report" in DFS management. I see the following error:
DFS Replication cannot...
hey every one
i just did a huge mistake - I hade problems with my domain replication so i tried to transfer the root domain services to another domain but did not transfer the schema ' I remounted the root domain and know I get errors when doing repadmin /replsum "the target principal name is...
Hi Everyone,
There are no DNS records listed in the ADC server. we checked using repadmin command all sync works fine and also we tried replication also works. Still no records are replicated to ADC server.
We check DNS port open.
In PDC server has all DNS records. I hope your understanding.
I...
Hi All,
I have this issue with a farm of 5 Domain Controllers (Windows server 2012 and 2016). DFSR is not replicating SYSVOL folder to any of the of the domain controllers. Here is a quick topology of the servers.
DC01 - Primary Domain Controller
DC02 - Child Domain Controller
DC03 - Child...
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