RE: Site link issues

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Wayne

tricky to opine without access on this one, but repadmin /showreps or
replmon (both in the support tools install), could both allow you to identify
exactly what the forest root is trying to replicate.
Once the first DC in the forest is upgraded, two new naming contexts /
partitions are created, dc=forestDNSzones,<Forest root> and
dc=domainDNSzones,<forest root> (where <forest root> = dc=acme,dc=com, for
example). It may be that it is trying to find partners for these.

Gordon

"Wayne Jones" wrote:

> We are in the process of upgrading our Active Directory domain to Windows
> 2003. We have a empty forest and several domains in the forest each with
> multiple sites. The forest root has one Windows 2003 DC and the rest are
> Win2k. The various other domains and sites are in the process of being
> upgrading so each has both Win2k3 dc's and Win2k.
>
> I have just recently upgraded both dc's in my site to Win2k3. Before the
> upgrade one of my dc's in this site replicated back to the forest and all the
> other dc's in my domain (all sites in my domain) replicated back to this
> domain controller. We had created site links with a cost of 100 and Interval
> of 180 minutes. The default site link was set to a cost of 1000.
>
> Every since the upgrade the one domain controller in my domain is now
> creating replication objects to just about every other dc in every other
> domain and site. It is as if it is ignoring the created site links and using
> the default site link instead. No changes have been made to the sites and
> site link configuration since long before my upgrade.
>
> Is there anything in the Windows 2003 upgrade that would have caused this to
> occur. The remaining Win2k dc's in my domain (all sites) are still showing
> the same replication objects they had before I upgraded my dc's
>
> This is only causing us a problem with the replication back to the forest
> root as the replication amongst the dc's in my domain is still working
> without error.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
.



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