Domain controller replication

9 Jun 2006 7:24 AM

Shaun

Hi,

We had a major problem yesterday when our main DC crashed. Now we found that
our 2nd DC was not updating DNS settings, mail was not flowing.
How do we know that DNS or any Active Directory information is supposedly
replicating. in this instance it was not. Some DNS setting were not found on
the 2nd DC.

Can you assist me with this

9 Jun 2006 9:45 AM

Jorge Silva

Hi

You ca use repadmin or replmon

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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

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"Shaun" <Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We had a major problem yesterday when our main DC crashed. Now we found
> that
> our 2nd DC was not updating DNS settings, mail was not flowing.
> How do we know that DNS or any Active Directory information is supposedly
> replicating. in this instance it was not. Some DNS setting were not found
> on
> the 2nd DC.
>
> Can you assist me with this

9 Jun 2006 12:51 PM

Paul Bergson

Steps I take are:

I have ultrasound running all the time. This monitors my FRS (SYSVOL)

I have replmon running with all my dc's specified an updates automaitcally
(Checks NTDS rep) every 60 minutes

Every couple of weeks I run the following bat file

@echo off

c:
cd \
cd "program files\support tools"

del c:\dcdiag.log
dcdiag /e /c /v /s:DC_Name /f:c:\dcdiag.log
start c:\dcdiag.log

netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log
start c:\netdiag.log

repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt
start c:\repl.txt

See for more details

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/TechRef/1d4ce93c-54f2-4069-a708-251509c38837.mspx

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"Shaun" <Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We had a major problem yesterday when our main DC crashed. Now we found
> that
> our 2nd DC was not updating DNS settings, mail was not flowing.
> How do we know that DNS or any Active Directory information is supposedly
> replicating. in this instance it was not. Some DNS setting were not found
> on
> the 2nd DC.
>
> Can you assist me with this

9 Jun 2006 6:59 PM

Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP]

monitoring your AD would have told you this..
using native tools can help you, but third party tools are better

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"Shaun" <Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F03D2EB3-2B1F-4279-BFAA-56C80CEC003A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> We had a major problem yesterday when our main DC crashed. Now we found
> that
> our 2nd DC was not updating DNS settings, mail was not flowing.
> How do we know that DNS or any Active Directory information is supposedly
> replicating. in this instance it was not. Some DNS setting were not found
> on
> the 2nd DC.
>
> Can you assist me with this