Re: Not quite a GC server

> The primary Win 2003 DC crashed, so I promoted my alternate DC.

What does this mean?

To me this statement means this was a member server and once the main DC
crashed you ran dcpromo to make this a DC. If this is the case you need to
restore from a backup. If you "promoted" your "alternate DC" to a DC (by
running dcpromo) after the main DC crashed, you did it wrong. In order for
the second DC (the one you promoted) to take over for the main DC, it had to
be a DC online and replicating with the main DC BEFORE the main DC crashed.
It "sounds" like you ended up creating a new domain with the same name as
your old domain.

hth
DDS


"BiscuitEater" <> wrote in message
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> The primary Win 2003 DC crashed, so I promoted my alternate DC.
> However, unable to get all roles transferred (seized) OK. Even though I
> was logged in as the EnterpriseAdmin/SchemaAdmin, NTDSutil said that I
> did not have permission to seize the schema master role.
>
> dcdiag reports that the new DC "...has not finished promoting to be a
> GC." and "...is not advertising as a global catalog." For the Schema
> Owner role, it also shows the original DC, instead of the new one. Then
> I ran 'dsquery server -isgc' and it said that the new DC was the GC.
>
> This is a small subnet with no other DCs.
>
> I seem to keep running in a circle, with no place to break in and
> resolve this.
>
> Suggestions?
>
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