Hello everyone!
I have 3 DCs (win 2003). The one DC off-site (DR) hasn't been turned on in over 180 days(!). DCDIAG reports the tombstone issue.
I need to bring this off-site DC back on line ASAP.
Someone mentioned to DCPROMO it down to Member server and then DCPROMO it back up... I'm just not sure of the correct steps, can anyone help? Her's the method (& questions) that I suggested:
1) Before powering up the bad DC, take it off the LAN
QUESTION, can I log into DC with domain account when it's not connected to WAN? (silly question, I know....)
2) Power it up, DCPROMO it (down) using "dcpromo /forceremoval"
3) (When do I do the metadata cleanup?) Once it's a member server, power down, plug into LAN/WAN, power up and then DCPROMO it again back to a DC.
How does that sound everyone? Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Brando
I have 3 DCs (win 2003). The one DC off-site (DR) hasn't been turned on in over 180 days(!). DCDIAG reports the tombstone issue.
I need to bring this off-site DC back on line ASAP.
Someone mentioned to DCPROMO it down to Member server and then DCPROMO it back up... I'm just not sure of the correct steps, can anyone help? Her's the method (& questions) that I suggested:
1) Before powering up the bad DC, take it off the LAN
QUESTION, can I log into DC with domain account when it's not connected to WAN? (silly question, I know....)
2) Power it up, DCPROMO it (down) using "dcpromo /forceremoval"
3) (When do I do the metadata cleanup?) Once it's a member server, power down, plug into LAN/WAN, power up and then DCPROMO it again back to a DC.
How does that sound everyone? Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Brando