Re: Event ID 2103 - Not good.

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Yeah, I'm agreeing with Larry here...
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"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in message news:OVH3x39gIHA.1996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There won't be a copy of the AD on the member server. If it is also a DC,
then perhaps.

What are the conditions of the backups of this server?

How are you with DSRM?

Might be worth a call to MS Client Support Services.

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"Woolf Computing Solutions, Inc." <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8163E09E-EC3C-4CF3-8AE5-82D2BC7AC320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> So as I am troubleshooting an issue for a client that has SBS2003
> installed I
> find Event ID 2103 in the SBS2003 DC, which reads something like "The
> Active
> Directory database has been restored using an unsupported restoration
> procedure. Active Directory will be unable to log on users while this
> condition persists. As a result, the Net Logon service has paused. "
>
> What's more is I have eventid 1308 "The Knowledge Consistency Checker
> (KCC)
> has...... consistently failed with 794 attempts.
>
> And then some Event ID 1864's basically saying it is not replicating with
> a
> member server that I have running a DC for redundancy purposes. Note:
> All
> FSMO and other master roles are with the SBS2003 server.
>
> So after researching all this I find I probably need to restore the AD
> database on the SBS2003 server. Based on what I have read thus far I am
> thinking that rather than do an AD restore I can potentially restore using
> the more current AD database on the member server. Is this possible?
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