Built 2nd DC - Is It Working

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I just put a 2nd W2K3 domain controller in our organization for redundancy -
is there an easy test to see if it's working? (Preferably something that
can be done without anyone noticing if it doesn't work.)

The reason I ask is that I still see Netlogon events on the first 2003 DC
that refer to syncrhonization with our old NT PDC, which is still online.
But I don't see any similar events between the two W2K3 DCs. Makes me
wonder if they are talking to each other.

Thanks
 
Try running netdiag, repadmin and dcdiag. Look for fail, error and warning
errors.

If you don't have the tools installed load them from your install disk.

d:\i386\adminpak.msi (Server tools for remote management of servers)
d:\support\tools\setup.exe (Server Utilities)

Copy the following to a cmd file and run look for error, fail and warn
within the reports. Post any errors you can't figure out. make sure you
modify DC_Name to the name of a dc in your domain.

@echo off

c:
cd \
cd "program files\support tools"

del c:\dcdiag.log
dcdiag /e /c /v /s:DC_Name /f:c:\dcdiag.log
start c:\dcdiag.log

netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log
start c:\netdiag.log

repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt
start c:\repl.txt


See for more details

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...Ref/1d4ce93c-54f2-4069-a708-251509c38837.mspx

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

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I just put a 2nd W2K3 domain controller in our organization
for redundancy -
is there an easy test to see if it's working? (Preferably
something that
can be done without anyone noticing if it doesn't work.)

The reason I ask is that I still see Netlogon events on the
first 2003 DC
that refer to syncrhonization with our old NT PDC, which is
still online.
But I don't see any similar events between the two W2K3 DCs.
Makes me
wonder if they are talking to each other.

Thanks
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RUN DCDIAG /V on the DCs to see if everything is OK (Support Tools)
 
Apart from the pther coments that will give a shure shot result :) do a
simple test. make a user on the old DC and wait for replication and see if
it appears in the new one. (this is the most basic of the tests)

Nim
 
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