DC crash recovery

[Robert]

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Hi,
I have a question regarding AD crash recovery. I was reading about how to
add a DC to AD after a crash and it said that I have to remove the DC from
AD before adding it again. However I decided to add it without deleting the
old object from AD, just to see what the error was.
I reinstalled windows 2000, named the server the same as it was before with
the same IP etc. The weird thing is that I was able to add it with no
errors, AD picked it as the same DC and somehow assigned it to the old DC
object. I'm not complaining but I was just wondering how this was possible??
Shouldn't the SID be different or something? what am I missing here.

Thank you for any explanations

 

[Guest]

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robert wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question regarding AD crash recovery. I was reading about how to
> add a DC to AD after a crash and it said that I have to remove the DC from
> AD before adding it again. However I decided to add it without deleting the
> old object from AD, just to see what the error was.
> I reinstalled windows 2000, named the server the same as it was before with
> the same IP etc. The weird thing is that I was able to add it with no
> errors, AD picked it as the same DC and somehow assigned it to the old DC
> object. I'm not complaining but I was just wondering how this was possible??
> Shouldn't the SID be different or something? what am I missing here.
>
> Thank you for any explanations

probably You will notice some problems with replication and errors in
event logs

--
Tomasz Onyszko
http://www.w2k.pl

 

[Robert]

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I checked the log files, no problems reports. In fact the changes are
replicating fine, even DNS was automatically replicated over.
The server that crashed also had a shared folder on another partition with
NTFS permissions set on it, surprisingly all the NFTS permissions were also
retained.

"Tomasz Onyszko" <T.Onyszko_nospam_@w2k.pl> wrote in message
news:OYU71fUqFHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> robert wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a question regarding AD crash recovery. I was reading about how to
>> add a DC to AD after a crash and it said that I have to remove the DC
>> from AD before adding it again. However I decided to add it without
>> deleting the old object from AD, just to see what the error was.
>> I reinstalled windows 2000, named the server the same as it was before
>> with the same IP etc. The weird thing is that I was able to add it with
>> no errors, AD picked it as the same DC and somehow assigned it to the old
>> DC object. I'm not complaining but I was just wondering how this was
>> possible?? Shouldn't the SID be different or something? what am I missing
>> here.
>>
>> Thank you for any explanations
>
> probably You will notice some problems with replication and errors in
> event logs
>
> --
> Tomasz Onyszko
> http://www.w2k.pl