Environment: Single forest, single domain, 3 DC's, DC1 holds all FSMO
rolls, all DC's GC's, BIND DNS, DC1 and DC2 in one site, DC3 in another.
All DCs w2k3 SP0, FFL/DFL are w2k3.
DC3 went down over the weekend and on reboot get the "Directory Services
cannot start" error message.
The DA at
As the garage door opener of building 7 recently mentioned, AD won't replicate corruption. It would be in your best interest however to find the root cause of the problem before rebuilding. Hardware would be a likely culprit, but you'd want to be sure before spending the time rebuilding.
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