Hi:
Short story, a company we bought recently gave us a copy of one of
their domain controlers so I could explore setting up a trust between there
domain and our domain, in an isolated bubble of course, as preparation to doing
a migration in production. The DC they exported was not an operations master
role holder, so one of the first things I did was use ntdsutil to seize the
roles. I started getting event 2092
This server is the owner of the following FSMO role, but does not consider it
valid. For the partition which contains the FSMO, this server has not
replicated successfully with any of its partners since this server has been
restarted. Replication errors are preventing validation of this role.
I was under the impression that seizing a role was pretty final, but in doing
some research I am not so sure anymore. I found this site
https://standalonelabs.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/initial-synchronizations-of-domain-controllers/
that indicates that even if a role is seized using ntdsutil, the DC that seized
the role still tries to talk to the DC that it seized the role from to tell it
that the role has been seized and won't consider the transfer valid until
that's done. The site suggested deleting the replication link, which I did but
still am getting the error. I then used ntdsutil to seize the roles again,
with no change. I then removed the DC that held the operations master roles
from Sites and Services, and still get the error. All DCs involved are 2008R2
and the forest is at the 2008R2 functional level. My next step would be to go
and clean up every single other site accept for the one this DC is in, and
remove all other DCs from Sites and Services, but was wondering if there was
something else I could do first to convince this guy that it really should take
over these operations master roles.
Thanks.
Ryan
Ryan Shugart
LAN Administrator
MiTek USA, MiTek Denver
314-851-7414
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