AD Problem with new restored DC

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Just Another Admin

Hi,

I am having some trouble here. This is the trouble I am having.

Around 1-2 weeks ago I had a DC crash (lost 2 Drives in a RAID5). So I
decided to simply restore my new DC with the same name. I didnt even use
previous backups to restore because I didnt have anything on it. I simply
reinstalled the server and did a dcpromo and the whole AD got replicated.
Ever since I have notice a couple of weird things for example on the
Security Event viewer I dont see any new PC or users connecting to it but my
other DC (which holds the GC also) is getting all teh requests. The other
problem is that Exchange is not communicating AD with it. The reason is that
I created a new user recently and it told me that the user didnt have the
rights to logon for the first time, so what I did was shutdown the new DC
and it worked. I am wondering why is that. I tested the AD Replication and
that works perfect. it replicates perfectly. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

G.

P.S Sorry my English is not that good.
 
JAA,

When the ''original' DC went kerplunck did you use ntdsutil to remove it
from Active Directory? I am sure that there are a ton of errors that you
have been receiving. Please take a look at the following MSKB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216498

Do not be fooled by the title. An 'unsuccessful' demotion is essentially
what you experienced - the Hard Drives crashed and instead of following the
proper procedures you simply loaded things up again. Did you make sure that
you added an additional Domain Controller to an existing Domain?

I would clean things up ( and it is going to be messy since you used the
same name ).

HTH,

Cary

PS - you should also install the Support Tools on your existing DCs ( in
fact, on all of your WIN2000 Servers ) and run several of the utilities,
such as dcdiag and netdiag and repadmin.....
 
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