RE: Event 4515

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Hello,

Thanks for your post.

I understand you encountered an event error: 4515 after migrating form NT4
to Win2k3 and you have found a KB article: 867464 which describe the same
issue. This article you found is right and there is resolution in it.

It seems to be a DNS issue. I'd like to give you some suggestions on this
issue. However, you'd better contact to
Microsoft.public.windows.activedirectory newsgroup to get the most
efficient and professional support on it.

Based on my further research, the cause maybe is that there are two zones
for the ***.com domain. You can check if there is duplicated DNS zone in
DomainDNSZones.

The article main content is that to remove duplicated DNS zone in
DomainDNSZones, restart DNS server and force replication, make sure
duplicate zone no longer exist.

In the KB article there are three options:
Option 1 [ForestDNSZones] and Option 2 [DomainDNSZones] listed above are
only understood by Windows 2003 domain controllers. Option 3 is understood
by Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 domain controllers. If you have any
Windows 2000 DCs that need to host this zone, you must choose Option 3.

>From your description, I guess you should use the Option 2:
[DomainDNSZones] as following:

1. Click Start, click Run, type adsiedit.msc, and then click OK.
2. In the console tree, right-click ADSI Edit, and then click Connect to.
3. Click Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context, type the
following text in the list, and then click OK: DC=contoso,DC=com.
4. In the console tree, double-click DC=DomainDNSZones,DC=contoso,DC=com
5. Double-click CN=MicrosoftDNS, and click the zone (contoso.com). You
should now be able to view the DNS records which exist in this DNS
partition. If you desire to remove this partition, right-click on
contoso.com and then click Delete.

Note Deleting a zone is a destructive operation. Please confirm that a
duplicate zone exists before you perform a deletion.
6. If you have deleted a zone, restart the DNS service. To do this, follow
these steps:
a. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and
then click DNS.
b. In the console tree, right-click contoso.com, point to All Tasks, and
then click Restart.

RELATED KNOWLEDGE BASE ARTICLES
=================================
867464 Event ID 4515 is logged in the DNS Server log in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=867464

305967 How to Clear Bad Information in Active Directory-Integrated DNS
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305967

825036 Best practices for DNS client settings in Windows 2000 Server and in
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825036

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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http://www.microsoft.com/dns

HTH!

Thanks & Regards

Amanda Wang [MSFT]

Microsoft Online Partner Support

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>Subject: Event 4515
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:58:26 +0200
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>Hi
>
>After migrating nt4 to Win2003 AD. I have in the DNS section in the event
>viewer this error:
>event id: 4515, I have found an article number 867464 that explain how to
>solve my problem.
>
>I dont understand it can someone help or to give me a bettr way to solve
it?
>
>Than'x
>S
>
>
>

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