I recently deployed a new domain for a customer.\u00a0 Initially it had only one domain controller because we had to rush the network into production.\u00a0 We had a machine on order which I built up a few days later and promoted last Friday.\u00a0 I was doing some remote work on Saturday when I got some alerts about AD replication.\u00a0 I’d already had some of those after the initial DCPromo but I expect those after that first reboot while the directory\/SYSVOL replicates and FRS allows the server to become a DC for the first time.\n<\/p>\n
I logged into the DC’s and could find nothing wrong in the event logs.\u00a0 Absolutely nothing!\u00a0 AD replication, on the face of it, appeared fine.\u00a0 I logged into DC2 and tried to force replication between DC1 and DC2 and that’s when I found I got an error: "Naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from the specified server."\u00a0 Uh-Oh!\n<\/p>\n
How did SCOM notice this problem but the event logs didn’t?\u00a0 Installing a SCOM agent creates some containers and objects in the directory.\u00a0 SCOM agents update objects and measure to see how long it takes to replicate those changes between DC’s with agents on them.\u00a0 If it exceeds a pre-determined time then replication isn’t working correctly.\u00a0 It’s a perfect test.\n<\/p>\n
I tried to delete the KCC generated link object that was failing and replace it with a manual one via the GUI.\u00a0 That failed.\u00a0 So I resorted to using the Support tools (SUPPORT.MSI on the Server 2003 CD) and REPADMIN.\u00a0 The complete guide is available<\/a> to read.\n<\/p>\n The high level steps were as follows:<\/p>\n SCOM to the rescue!\n<\/p>\n Credit: Gary Olsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently deployed a new domain for a customer.\u00a0 Initially it had only one domain controller because we had to rush the network into production.\u00a0 We had a machine on order which I built up a few days later and promoted last Friday.\u00a0 I was doing some remote work on Saturday when I got some … Continue reading “SCOM Saves The Day: W2003 AD Replication Issue Resolved”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n