Reset/Recreate sysvol?

[Manuel Alvarez]

Hello Everyone,

We had an Active Directory crash a few months ago, and
for some reason the sysvol didn't restore properly from
the backup. Specifically, the reparse (link) points were
not there. I tried manually recreating the reparse
points, but the sysvol still won't initialize on it's own
on the master DC, which means it can't initialize on the
member DC's either.

Active directory (the NTDS part of it) is actually up and
running (user and computer changes are propagating
correctly throughout the enterprise), but because of the
sysvol problem the DFS doesn't start and therefore logon
scripts and group policy changes aren't propagating.
Currently the sysvol and netlogon shares have to be
manually recreated each time a member DC is rebooted.

Well, now to my quesion (thanks for hanging in there!):
Since SYSVOL is my only problem, is there a way I can
just have Windows completely kill the sysvol and recreate
a new one? That way I could just plug in my policies and
logon scripts and I should be good to go.

I have actually worked on this problem for quite a while
with no success... I really hope someone out there can
point me in the right direction!

Thank you for your time and kindness,
Manuel Alvarez

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hello Everyone,

We had an Active Directory crash a few months ago, and
for some reason the sysvol didn't restore properly from
the backup. Specifically, the reparse (link) points were
not there. I tried manually recreating the reparse
points, but the sysvol still won't initialize on it's own
on the master DC, which means it can't initialize on the
member DC's either.

Active directory (the NTDS part of it) is actually up and
running (user and computer changes are propagating
correctly throughout the enterprise), but because of the
sysvol problem the DFS doesn't start and therefore logon
scripts and group policy changes aren't propagating.
Currently the sysvol and netlogon shares have to be
manually recreated each time a member DC is rebooted.

Well, now to my quesion (thanks for hanging in there!):
Since SYSVOL is my only problem, is there a way I can
just have Windows completely kill the sysvol and recreate
a new one? That way I could just plug in my policies and
logon scripts and I should be good to go.

I have actually worked on this problem for quite a while
with no success... I really hope someone out there can
point me in the right direction!

Thank you for your time and kindness,
Manuel Alvarez

A search of the KB for
troubleshotting and sysvol
returns:
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=216359 "HOW TO Identify Group Policy Objects
in the Active Directory and SYSVOL"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=221111 "Description of FRS entries in the
registry"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=249256 "HOW TO Troubleshoot Intra-Site
Replication Failures"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=249694 "How to Move a Windows 2000
Installation to Different Hardware"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=250776 "Windows 2000 Terminal Services Issues
in an Active Directory Domain Environment"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=250842 "Troubleshooting Group Policy
Application Problems"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=256000 "Error Messages After Importing
Basicdc.inf into Group Policy"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=257338 "Troubleshooting Missing SYSVOL and
NETLOGON Shares on Windows 2000 Domain Controllers"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263532 "How to perform a disaster recovery
restoration of Active Directory on a computer with a different hardware
configuration"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=266679 "Pre-staging the File Replication
Service Replicated Files on SYSVOL and Distributed File System Shares for
Optimal Synchronization"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=271213 "Event ID 1000 and 1001 Repeat Every 5
Minutes in the Event Log"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=273857 "How to Give Users Access to Group
Policy Objects"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=278316 "ESENT Event IDs 1000 1202 412 and 454
Are Logged Repeatedly in the Application Event Log"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=282791 "FRS Disk Defragmentation Causes
Excessive FRS Replication Traffic"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=283133 "Error Message The Specified Domain
Either Does Not Exist or Could Not Be Contacted"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=289668 "Advancing Time on Production Computers
and the Effect on Active Directory and FRS"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=292438 "Troubleshooting Journal_Wrap Errors on
Sysvol and DFS Replica Sets"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=298143 "How to Verify an Active Directory
Installation"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=300921 "HOW TO Create an Active Directory
Server in Windows 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=311398 "HOW TO Set Up File and Folder
Replication for IIS 5.0 Using the Most Common Method in Windows 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=317368 "HOW TO Use Lbridge.cmd to Replicate
System Policies Between Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controllers"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=324787 "HOW TO Disable FrontPage 2002 Commands
by Using a GPO and a WSH Script"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=328800 "File Replication Service Causes a
'QKey = QUADZERO' Error Message"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=819268 "Event ID 13552 and 13559 on DFS
Replica Members or Domain Controllers That Are Hosting a SYSVOL Replica Set"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=823659 "Client Service and Program
Incompatibilities That May Occur When You Modify Security Settings and User
Rights Assignments"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825446 "How to Disable Certain FrontPage 2003
Commands by Using a GPO and a WSH Script"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=834519 "Network users may experience extended
logon times in Windows 2000"


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Manuel Alvarez]

Thank you Jerold, I have read many (but not all) of the
articles you listed. I will examine each one again and
hopefully I will find what I need. It kills me because it
is such a simple problem, but finding a simple solution
for it has proven very difficult!!

Thanks again,
Manuel

-----Original Message-----


A search of the KB for
troubleshotting and sysvol
returns:
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=216359 "HOW TO Identify Group Policy Objects
in the Active Directory and SYSVOL"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=221111 "Description of FRS entries in the
registry"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=249256 "HOW TO Troubleshoot Intra-Site
Replication Failures"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=249694 "How to Move a Windows 2000
Installation to Different Hardware"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=250776 "Windows 2000 Terminal Services Issues
in an Active Directory Domain Environment"
http://support.microsoft.com?

kbid=250842 "Troubleshooting Group Policy

Application Problems"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=256000 "Error Messages After Importing
Basicdc.inf into Group Policy"
http://support.microsoft.com?

kbid=257338 "Troubleshooting Missing SYSVOL and

NETLOGON Shares on Windows 2000 Domain Controllers"

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263532 "How to perform a disaster recovery
restoration of Active Directory on a computer with a different hardware
configuration"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=266679 "Pre-staging the File Replication
Service Replicated Files on SYSVOL and Distributed File System Shares for
Optimal Synchronization"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=271213 "Event ID 1000 and 1001 Repeat Every 5
Minutes in the Event Log"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=273857 "How to Give Users Access to Group
Policy Objects"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=278316 "ESENT Event IDs 1000 1202 412 and 454
Are Logged Repeatedly in the Application Event Log"

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=282791 "FRS Disk Defragmentation Causes
Excessive FRS Replication Traffic"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=283133 "Error Message The Specified Domain
Either Does Not Exist or Could Not Be Contacted"

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=289668 "Advancing Time on Production Computers
and the Effect on Active Directory and FRS"
http://support.microsoft.com?

kbid=292438 "Troubleshooting Journal_Wrap Errors on