Best Practice: Demoting a Domain Controller
Demoting a Domain Controller KB ID 0001932 Problem I was having a conversation with some colleagues this week, the conversation was about the placing of an RDS license server, and somebody had recommended putting it on the domain controller, I pointed out that this wasn’t a perfect idea, because in four or five year’s time somebody’s going to demote and take that to my controller off-line and forget all about the fact that...
Domain Replication Issues – Fix Replication Issues
Fix Replication KB ID 0000301 Problem You have one or more domain controllers in your Windows domain that is not replicating to one or more replication partners. Fix Replication Issues: Solutions Fix Replication Issues Step 1 DNS First! Before you start make sure all the domain controllers are pointing the PDC emulator ONLY for their DNS settings. 1. On the PDC emulator > Start > run > dnsmgmt.msc {enter}. 2. Expand...
Event ID 1988
KB ID 0000261 Problem Event ID 1988 Active Directory Replication encountered the existence of objects in the following partition that have been deleted from the local…. in other domains in the forest are known as “lingering objects”. Domain controllers are bound by “Strict Replication” and there is an item in Active Directory that’s “hanging about” and needs deleting. Solution Option 1...