[ActiveDir] Demoted DC Lives On

2005-07-27 Thread Your Name
Hello: A few weeks ago, I demoted a DC at one of our sites. The demotion appeared to work correctly, and the server no longer appears as a DC under the ADUC. Also, while there is an A record for the server, it has been removed from the _msdcs, _sites, etc. The server was then completely shut

RE: Exchange in VM (was RE: [ActiveDir] Running DCs in Virtual Se rver 2005 - whitepaper)

2004-12-20 Thread Your Name
Well, I am now onsite and the host machine seems to have completely melted down with a BSOD: config_initialization_failed. I have tried various recovery tricks, all to no avail. Reformatting now. I am curious, though, how I can prevent this in the future. I am looking at the IDE RAID card as

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005

2004-11-29 Thread Your Name
Thanks. From your descriptions, I think I would want to use NAT only on the NIC connected to the production network. That is, have all of the traffic from the virtual network appearing as a single address on the production network. Since I want everything on the test network (virtual and

[ActiveDir] DNS Event ID 5504

2004-11-09 Thread Your Name
Hi - (Seems like we've covered this recently, but I could find nothing in the archives) I have a W2k SP4 DNS server that keeps coughing up these errors in the DNS Event log: The DNS server encountered an invalid domain name in a packet from 206.13.29.12. The packet is rejected. That