Re: _Msdcs-folder missing on new Windows Server 2003 SB

D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In news:%2384TAmzVFHA.3532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Rolf Barbakken <notnoisy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted this:
>> After installing a new DC in a new domain the _Msdcs-folder is
>> missing.
>>
>> The _Msdcs.forestname-folder is there and the domainname zone folder.
>> We
>> have no errors in the eventlogs pointing to this and no problems with
>> lookups. Netdiag and dcdiag shows no errors. Dynamic registrations
>> from
>> clients are working fine.
>>
>> The _Msdcs-folder was present after OS-install, but greyed out, so we
>> deleted it and tried to get it correctly recreated.
>
> This is where you messed up, it is supposed to be grayed out as it is a
> delegation, not a sub folder.
> Right click in the zone, select new delegation, name it _msdcs, give it
> the
> name and IP of this DC.

Thanks.

We deleted the zone as it seemed disabled, and had some problems with errors
in the DNS-log. Deleting the _msdcs-delegation "fixed" the errors and we had
no problems.

--
Rolf




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