?issue restoring Operation Masters to Pre forestprep and domainprep operation

[Hii Sing Chung]

Just 3 days ago I promoted a Windows 2003 server into my Windows 2000
Domain, thus I did the forestprep and domainprep operations. The PDC
emulator, Schema master and Infastructure master is still held by a Windows
2000 DC. Everything went fine. I had a system state backup of the Windows
2000 DC which held the major FMSO just before the forestprep and domainprep
operations.

Unluckily this morning the power went down suddenly (like it has done so
before, now we believe the UPS is the cause) repeatedly and the Windows 2000
DC's directory service database was corrupted, making it not able to start
directory service. The new Windows 2003 DC is running OK.

I am a bit worried. Is it OK to restore this Windows DC back to the system
state when the forestprep and domainprep was done? What is the best
resolution?

 

[Jorge de Almeida Pinto]

yes that is OK.... restore at least the system disk and the system state.

remember the backup is an older version of AD, and by restoring the system
state non-authoritatively the other still alive DCs will replicate new
information to the restored DC. As the schema was updated, it will first
replicate the schema stuff and only then will it replicate other info

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Cheers,
(HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPS YOU!)
# Jorge de Almeida Pinto #
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[Hii Sing Chung]

I found that when this Windows 2000 DC is down, I can't manage and Dfs, I
also have intermittent authentication and Active Directory management
problem - "the specified domain is not available", "no rpc server
available". Are these related to the FSMO on this DC?

"Jorge de Almeida Pinto"

 

[Jorge de Almeida Pinto]

If the namespace is setup with multiple root servers for a namespace while
that DC is down the users still should have access.

However, when managing DFS it is done on the PDC FSMO. And if the PDC FSMO
is down, well no DFS management available

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Cheers,
(HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPS YOU!)
# Jorge de Almeida Pinto #
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