Re: AD Integrated problem

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From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:05:12 -0400

In news:epFpKDSuEHA.3788@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> made a post then I
commented below
> I think what happened, he made the change before AD replicated, so
> when he made the change it created a new zone in AD which would
> overwrite the other zone. Usually if you change one then the other
> you will get a pop up message that says the zone already exists in AD
> and asks if you want to use the zone in AD or overwrite the existing
> zone. If the change was made before the zone replicated it may have
> overwritten the other zone. Win2k3 will create conflicting zones in
> AD giving one a name beginning with CNF. I don't think Win2k does
> this, it just overwrites it. I've seen this behavior myself on my two
> DCs before I figured out I just had to wait for replication.

That's probably what happened. He did it on the one machine, then did it
immediately on the other machine. W2k just overwrites it, you're right about
that one. W2k3, depending on which replication domain setting is chosen,
will create the conflict. If he chose the center selection, that goes into
the DomainDnsZones, the bottom selection goes into the DomainNC, which is 2k
compatible. If he did it differently on each server, then the CNF will
appear.

Cheers!

Ace

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