Re: Active Direcroty Integration in DNS - Looses Forward Zone :-0

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Marvin Miller wrote:
Hi Kurt;

Thanks for replying :-)

"did you transfer the 5 Flexible Single Master Operations
(FSMO) roles the the second DC? "

The AD wizard will attempt to transfer the FSMO roles to another DC, when
you demote it. If the FSMO roles cannot be transferred Dcpromo will fail and
ask you if you want to do a forceremoval. If it did not warn you of this,
then it is a safe bet the roles transferred. The Global Catalog is the only
AD "role" which won't be transferred by DCPromo. (The Global catalog is not
really a role, it is actually a directory service) You must have at least
one Global catalog per forest, but you can have more, I recommend one at
each site.


I doubt it as I don't know what those are. All I did was run DCPROMO
on the DC and ensure that the new DC was a catalog server. I followed
a MS KB article and it seemed to work fine. The previous DC is now a
normal server although for some reason it seems to still run the File
Replication Service.....

The File replication service is used by AD, but it does not require AD, this
is the service that runs the Distributed File service, which can be on any
Windows server.


"I'm not sure why you can't create a DNS zone for your domain name,
but if you haven't transferred the FSMO roles, do that first and try
again."

Can that still be done after the original DC has become a normal
server? If so, how do I do that?

You should do a AD integrated zone re-install, or remove the zone from AD
and leave it a Primary. AD integrated zones do not have zone files, the DNS
data is stored in the AD Database. You cannot convert a secondary zone to AD
integrated, it won't let you, have to change the secondary zone to a primary
first. You also cannot have a Secondary zone on a DC if there is an AD
integrated zone on another DC. All AD integrated zones are Primary masters
with zone data stored in AD.

294328 - How to Reinstall a Dynamic DNS Active Directory- Integrated Zone
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294328&sd=RMVP

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