Directory Services

[Luis Gonzalez]

Do you hnow how to recover from the following error
measage?

"The windows Directory Service database could not be
initialized and returned error -550. Unrecoverable error,
the directory can't continue

 

[diasmith [MSFT]]

Hello,

This error 550 indicates that the database is damaged.

You can try to run a repair on the database, using ntdsutil:

315131 HOW TO: Use Ntdsutil to Manage Active Directory Files from the
Command
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315131

If that does not resolve the issue, you will have to restore from backup.

Thanks You.

Diana.

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