Paul, I've seen a similar issue in the past when reverting to an old snapshot of a server. My resolution was to remove the server from the domain, and then rejoin it to the domain. You'll need to know the local admin password in order to log in to the box once you have removed it from the domain.
Cheers Brett From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Restore WFE Hi guys, We're getting there... The biggest blocker we seem to be facing is the AD connection. Seems that it recycles its passwords through a private pool to all connect servers. The reverted VM's password is now out of synch and can't connect. No one seems to know how to rectify this. Any else run into this issue or have any ideas?? Regards, Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 10:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Restore WFE Sweet. This may not be such a disaster after all. :) Thanks guys! From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Restore WFE Daniel is right and you can also copy the web.configs from the other server as web.config are identical and share the same <machineKey validationKey= as well, so you should be fine On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Im pretty sure WFE don't talk to each other per-say, but rather the notices/changes from CA. IS anyone able to clarify this for Paul? If most of your things are solutions/feature sets, You should be OK to go with the re-deployment and if you any have files, I would suspect just copying them would be fine. Being that it is also the SSP, it may cause some trouble, but it may not also as if the database is right, then just enabling solutions/features should get it sorted out (with a bit of luck also). Cheers, Daniel From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 9:20 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Restore WFE Hi Sardar, The changes aren't that significant so I was really hoping I could just copy a few items across. Fairly confident all our customisation have been deployed as solutions. I'm more concerned about synching them again. Our SSP also sits on this box. What I don't know is if there is any synchronisation between the WFEs themselves, or if any changes to them comes from Central Admin server only. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Guljar, Sardar Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 9:47 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Restore WFE I think if you just rebuilt the PC and add to the farm all binaries which are installed as solution will be automatically installed. But if you have any binaries/features installed manually in WFE you have re-install it manually. Here is a article http://sharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/adding-an-extra-server-to-an-existing-sharepoint-farm/ about adding a new WFE. For your case you may have to remove the Faulty WFE before doing anything. Regards, Sardar ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 9:33 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Restore WFE Hi guys, I have finished laughing and am now quietly sobbing in despair. We have a small problem. Our production environment has two web front ends. All servers are virtual machines. Someone (not me!) managed to revert one of them to a previous snapshot by clicking the REALLY BIG BUTTON on the VM window that performs this wonderful task. Upon realising the mistake we immediately shut this box down. Question: If we can't selectively restore this box (which we can't!) is it possible to just copy across the 12 hive and any custom DLLs from the other WFE? 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