DC down for maintenance for 30 days

[Marlon Brown]

I have a remote site that will have electrical connectivity down for 30
days.
I would like to know if I need to take action to avoid any problem in AD,
since I have a DC (GC) there. That's just a remote DC, FSMO role. I do have
many others in DC in my environmnent.

Also, I would like to avoid eventvwr errors caused by that server down; I am
getting lots of KCC errors in my main office DC's and I would like to stop
that, if possible.

 

[Tim Hines [MSFT]]

If the server is going to be down that long then you probably should
transfer the roles, demote it and let it be a member server. If it is off
of the network then you are going to have errors on the other DCs because
the other DCs are aware of it and they will try to replicate with it and
fail or the KCC may try to create connection objects to it and fail. You
will also run into problems if the offline DC holds FSMO roles that may be
needed for some operations. You can always promote it later when your
power is back.

What are the KCC errors that you are receiving?


--
Tim Hines, MCSE, MCSA
Windows 2000 Directory Services

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