Re: Can not replicate Parent/Child DC's and can not raise forest functional level to 2008

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"Kathryn Viggiano" wrote in message news:2009106103016k_vigg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm working in a lab environment, with only 2 domain controllers - 1
parent, 1 child. replication was working fine in AD sites and services,
until a change was made on parent DC. Now replication will not occur.
error is RPC Server is unavailable. Was able to raise Domain Functional
Levels on both parent and child DC's from 2003 to 2008 successfully, but
when trying to raise Forest Functional Level, receive error that the
Directory Service is Busy. Have tried everything from stopping/starting
all AD services, netlogon service, rebuilding DNS... having NO luck.
Please help!!!



Florian Frommherz [MVP] wrote:

Re: Unable to raise Forest functional level from 2000 to 2003
24-Nov-08

Howdie!

FrancoiD wrote:

Have a look at the eventlog to see if there are any replication errors.
Does repadmin /showreps indicate that replication lately succeeded? I've
seen this in domains where replication has failed lately or changes to
the schema or GC PAS have not been propagated correctly.

cheers,

Florian
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What exactly was changed on the parent domain?
What is in the event logs?
Please post an ipconfig /all of the parent and child DCs, please.

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