Not at all, he has no screenshots! LOL But seriously, I would have reached out for help before three months had passed. My personal limit is one hour for something this critical. Just ask MBS and Brian Desmond, I am not afraid to reach out for help. BUT, I make sure I have done my research first before I bother anyone. But I would not have done 3 months' worth of effort and 322 very detailed pages of notes before I reached out.
Heck, I've even reached out to you while you were in a pub once (forgetting the 6 hour time difference). Thanks Webster From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 6:22 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: How to force an authoritative and non-authoritative synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4/D2" for FRS) 322 pages of notes? Is he related to you? ;-0 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: 17 November 2016 12:13 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: How to force an authoritative and non-authoritative synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4/D2" for FRS) Now that I am back in the "office". Got brought into this call yesterday at 1500 and the customer had a hard stop at 1630. Here is what I know: Customer has two DCs, one in each datacenter on opposite sides of the state. This issue of SYSVOL not replicating has been going on for over two months. The main DC has the DFSR service but the second one does not. Running dfsrmig /GetMigrationState on both DCs returns "eliminated". It appears that even though the DFSR service does not appear in services.msc that dfsrmig still works. The guy who originally handled IT stuff quit just over two months ago and the new guy steps in to a hornet's nest (SYSVOL was already broken). This is a one guy IT shop for a company with 17 users. He has 322 pages of meticulous notes of everything he has done over the past two months (that alone scares the crap out of me). Why the guy waited over two months to ask for help is beyond me. The company has known for months that electric work was scheduled at the "main" datacenter (main being the DC with all the FSMO roles). Electric power will be down from 1800 this Friday and not guaranteed to be back before at least 0300 Monday. >From what I was told they have been instructed that no sources of power are >allowed in this datacenter during this time. Obviously if the second DC has no SYSVOL, "things" just aren't to work right for the users on that side. I have asked for the results of "net share" from both DCs. If the first DC has SYSVOL and NetLogon and the second one does not, then dcpromo down the second DC, reboot and dcpromo back. If the first DC does not have SYSVOL share but has SYSVOL contents, then follow the Microsoft KB and take it from there. Any advice, suggestions and thoughts are welcome. Once they are back working, talk them in to putting in some 2012 R2 DCs since they have the licenses already. Thanks Webster From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 6:44 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: How to force an authoritative and non-authoritative synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4/D2" for FRS) You have a File Replication Service service, yes? You want THAT KB instead. Which is: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/290762 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7:02 PM To: NT Issues (ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com>) Subject: [NTSysADM] How to force an authoritative and non-authoritative synchronization for DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4/D2" for FRS) Anyone ever had to use this KB to fix SYSVOL? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2218556 Unfortunately, the two DCs are Server 2008 so they can't call Microsoft for support. I was looking at the section How to perform an authoritative synchronization of DFSR-replicated SYSVOL (like "D4" for FRS) and Steps 4 and 10 confuse me. Those steps say to start the DFSR service but there are no previous instructions that say to stop the service. On one of the broken DCs, there is no DFSR service that shows in services.msc. Any advice on using that KB would be appreciated. Thanks Webster
