Re: Upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003

From: Jeff Qiu [MSFT] (jefffqiu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:39:58 GMT

Hi GOODFELLA,

Thank you for your update.

To the first question:
Yes, the Operations Container is supposed to be there. It is used to store
some configuration operations.

To the second question:
I suggest you force a replication by repadmin command line below:

repadmin /replicate Destination_DC_LIST Source_DC_NAME /force /full

Check if the ForestUpgrade Container is replicated this time.

>From my test environment, it is replicated correctly.

Hope it helps!

Best Regards,

Jeff Qiu
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>From: goodfella749@yahoo.com (GOODFELLA)
>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.migration
>Subject: Re: Upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003
>Date: 1 Jun 2004 12:33:46 -0700
>microsoft.public.windows.server.migration
>
>Thanks for your reply Jeff!
>
>Here is an update to my last posted comment.
>
>We rebuilt the lab environment from tape backup of our production
>environment. In our forest root we have three domain controllers in
>production, however, in our lab environment, we built only two domain
>controllers. Using ADSIEdit and other tools, we removed the third
>domain controller from Active Directory. After waiting for
>replication to take place so that the other domain controller has the
>updated AD information, we ran ForestPrep on the Schema Operations
>master in the root domain. Using ADSIEdit, we were able to verify
>that the CN=ForestUpdates, CN=Windows2003Update containers have been
>created under the CN=Configuration container. However, there is also
>an additional folder that was created named CN=Operations which has 37
>containers (named CN={numbers and letters}) at the same level as the
>CN=Windows2003Update container. I'm not sure if this is supposed to
>be created and whether or not this is in part causing some problems
>for us in our lab. Also, we're having replication problems so that
>our other domain controller is not receiving the ForestPrep updates.
>We've check replication and it seems to work fine. We've even
>manually re-created the replication ring between the two domain
>controllers. We tested this by created "bogus" containers using
>ADSIEdit to see if it would replicate over, and its been successful,
>but the ForestPrep containers won't replicate.
>
>I've also checked the Event Logs and ADPrep logs and both show no
>unusual errors or warnings with the domain controllers or ForestPrep.
>
>Questions:
>
>1. Is the CN=Operations container (and its sub-containers) supposed
>to be created with ForestPrep? If not, do you know how or why this
>container was created after running ForestPrep?
>
>2. What could cause the ForestPrep containers to NOT replicate to the
>other domain controller? Replication seems to be working fine with
>other objects. How can we resolve or troubleshoot this issue? We've
>verified replication with ReplMon and Repadmin and both tools show
>successful replication with other objects. Could this be caused by
>the Spanning Tree algorithm trying to rebuild the replication ring and
>just needs time to complete?
>
>
>Much gratitude in advance for your insights!!
>
>GOODFELLA
>

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