Reinstalling DNS and DHCP on W2k3 Server

[superco7]

I have had issues viewing the servers and computers in my network places and also having issues with AD replication between sites for the past week or so but I have had no luck resolving this problem. I am assuming a reinstallation of DNS and DHCP should help to resolve these issues. Does anyone have any information on how to reinstall DNS and DHCP on a Windows 2003 domain controller, and what implications it may have.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[superco7]

Problem resolved, luckily it was much easier than I thought it would be. The issue was that I no longer had a master browser enabled in my domain. I don’t know what would have caused this but once I changed the isdomainmaster key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\isdomainmaster) to true on one of my domain controllers (that is running DNS but is not running DHCP) and restarted the computer browser service on that DC, everything started to show up again in the network neighborhood. It was pretty coincidental because all of this started happening very soon after I installed DHCP. If anyone knows what would cause that registry key to change, it would be very helpful in preventing it from happening again.

Thanks,

Mark