How are the clients locating this DC? (e.g. what are they using for DNS? Does that DNS server have the DC service records in it?)
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Saturday, 30 April 2011 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: adding second dc to site Yes it is a gc Bob Fronk <b...@btrfronk.com> wrote: Did you make it a GC as well? BF -----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 7:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: adding second dc to site Yes I allowed sufficient time after running repadmin /syncall. I also verified the existing domain controllers had all the new 2008 attributes. The new machine is also showing up in the correct site. Jimmy Jon Harris <jk.har...@gmail.com> wrote: Possibly stupid questions but did you allow time for replication to occur before adding the 08 machine? Is the new machine showing up as in the correct site? Jon On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jimmy Tran <jt...@teachtci.com> wrote: > The Win2K8 R2 machine was a member of the domain prior to promotion. > I ran > adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep /gpprep on a DC that is located in > a different site which holds all 5 FSMO rols. > > Jimmy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:40 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: adding second dc to site > > How exactly did you add the new server? Was the Win2k8 R2 machine a > member of the domain when you promoted it? Did you do the necessary > ADPrep on the Win2k3 DC beforehand? > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 15:26, Jimmy Tran <jt...@teachtci.com> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > > > > > I just added a second DC (server 2008r2) to my existing windows > > server > 2003 > > network. When I look at security log on the new DC, I don't see any > > activity from any other users or computers beside the DC itself (auditing > > enabled). I took down my primary DC in my site and the secondary DC did > not > > authenticate anyone/anything. What could be wrong? If there are > > two > DC's > > in one site, how can I get the authentication to work on both DCs? > > > > > > > > Any help is appreciated ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
