Re: Need to start from scratch..?
From: Brad Berson (userj_at_no.spam)
Date: 04/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:57:17 -0400
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:08:31 +1200, Enkidu <enkidu@xyzcliffpxyz.com>
wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:20:39 -0400, Brad Berson <userj@no.spam> wrote:
>
>>This is the kind of thing that needs a newsgroup called
>>microsoft.public.oh.my.god...
>>
>>Have a single-server office with the one server acting as the sole DC,
>>runs Win2K SP4 and E2K SP3. Has about a dozen active users and 4GB of
>>mailbox data in Exchange.
>>
>>The box has been hiccuping for months and all the reboots and screwy
>>consultants have left it with subtle but substantial metabase
>>corruption (all kinds of bits missing from the metabse schema) and a
>>domain that can't be recognised by the clients or be joined to. All
>>functionality right now works, but only on the level of pass-through
>>authentication. Frankly it's a miracle any of it works at all.
>>
>>It looks like I'm going to need to rebuild the server from scratch...
>>meaning: export the accounts, back up file data, back up Exchange,
>>blow away the partitions, install Windows, drivers, Exchange, patches,
>>etc., import accounts, restore file data and restore Exchange.
>>
>>Anyone have any tips for me before I embark down this dark, winding
>>road??
>>
>>And specifically, what happens with the original SIDs vs Exchange
>>mailboxes, etc?
>>
>>Or is there another way that doesn't involve selling my soul to Satan?
>>
>Can you hire a machine for a month or so? I'd hesitate to do all that
>at once! I'd get in a hire machine, install it as a second DC, move
>eveything across, and rebuild and move everything back. That's
>assuming that you can get it to play AD with the old one. If not
>rebuild on the hire machine, wipe and rebuild the old one (empty) and
>move everything across,
I already considered the idea of putting in a temporary server but I
can't even get machines to join the domain, much less become a domain
controller! The output from DCDIAG is not promising...
Starting test: Connectivity
*** Warning: could not confirm the identity of this server in
the directory versus the names returned by DNS servers.
If there are problems accessing this directory server then
you may need to check that this server is correctly registered
with DNS
Starting test: FsmoCheck
Warning: DcGetDcName(PDC_REQUIRED) call failed, error 1355
A Primary Domain Controller could not be located.
The server holding the PDC role is down.
......................... DOMAIN.com failed test FsmoCheck
There are also failures to register the RR in DNS, and MS's tech notes
that apply to that symptom are not relevant. And I'm getting Event
1202s every five minutes, "Security policies are propagated with
warning. 0x4b8 : An extended error has occurred." And once again,
MS's tech note (re Power Users) is not applicable.
As a last resort I'm going to take a stab at rebuilding the domain
database (in SYSVOL?) to see if that brings the domain back to life,
but the fact that MetaEdit's "check" function turned up so many
inconsistencies in the metabase, and the fact that NTFRS also needed
to be reset (was getting "The File Replication Service has detected
that the replica set "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" is in
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR"), makes me doubt it's worth the effort to invest much
more time in cleaning up the mess on this box.
-Brad
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