I have an interesting issue that has been happening for almost 6 weeks now. Every Wed. at approximately 1:40-1:45 PM, one of our domain controllers basically becomes totally unresponsive, causing the other two DC's to become effectively useless, AND causes the Exchange server to become unresponsive to clients. (Outlook 2003) .
The only clue that I have from the event logs is from the Directory Service log, Event ID: 1232 Source: NTDS Replication Category: DS RPC Client Type: Warning Description: Active Directory attempted to perform a remote procedure call (RPC) to the following server. The call timed out and was cancelled. Server: f9f58f44-e7e7-4ea5-92fe-aa38ff4cb646._msdcs.domain.com The server guid referenced here is one of the other domain controllers, that at this point in time, is scheduled to be rebuilt. (FSMO roles have been moved, etc etc) The Exchange server event log just shows that it cannot contact any global catalog server and lists the 3 dc's that we have which are all global catalog servers. During the duration of this "outage" this specific dc cannot be accessed either remote desktop, or direct on the console, but the other dc's are accessible as well as the Exchange server, albeit very slow response. I have Googled,looked at EventID.net and Microsoft on this, and have come up with very little. Did find a MS KB article that recommended making a registry change on the DC's to make the RPC call timeout at least 45 minutes, this was done last week, and the DC's were rebooted over the weekend to apply this registry change, but, today it happened again, so that didn't work. Found some other MS KB articles that were not applicable but did reference that event. Windows 2003 server, SP2. My question is, what the heck is replicating once a week that could be causing RPC to time out like this and basically bring the domain to a halt for 10 - 15 minutes? As I stated, this DC is going to be rebuilt, it just annoys me that I cannot find the reason for it, and a solution other than the rebuild. TIA, -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
