DC can't seem to find itself

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Paul Bergson

DON'T remove AD from this box unless there is another dc in your domain,
otherwise you will be starting over! You haven't provided much info.

Try running 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


See for more details

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

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I have 1 DC running AD, after a power outage (bad UPS, replaced with
new one) the server took a long time to start up. When checking the
services only about 1 third seem to have started. I have to start the
rest manually. in the event viewer I get message 1168 with error
1053. error message says can't connect to domain controller. I also
have Exchange on this box. If I remove AD then reinstall it and
recreate the user accounts will that affect the exchange mailboxes? Is
there a better way to fix the problem?

Thank You.
 
Don't do anything yet, try and clean up your metadata first.

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Buddy said:
I ran a ntdsutil and it performed a successful soft recovery but this
did not fix the problem. I will attempt the dcdiag tool tomorrow and
let you know how that goes. There are only about 5 to 7 users on the
system but I don't want to lose the data in the mailboxes if possible.

I have another server on the network that is part of the domain, I
could promote it to a DC I suppose but I don't know if it will take if
the AD database is not up on the DC.

Thank You.






http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Tech
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I ran a ntdsutil and it performed a successful soft recovery but this
did not fix the problem. I will attempt the dcdiag tool tomorrow and
let you know how that goes. There are only about 5 to 7 users on the
system but I don't want to lose the data in the mailboxes if possible.

I have another server on the network that is part of the domain, I
could promote it to a DC I suppose but I don't know if it will take if
the AD database is not up on the DC.

Thank You.
 
Paul, I was unable to clean the metadatabase I got an error when
connecting to the server "dsbindw error 0x6d9(there are no more
endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.)

Any ideas?
 
When you bind are you attaching to a current server or the one you are
trying to remove? If it is the one you are trying to remove, it won't work.

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