Win2000 Network Policy

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Please help.
Added new server to domain but when original sever is
offline group policy is not being picked up by users.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Was the new server a domain controller?? You probably have a dns misconfiguration
problem. Make sure that your domain computers are able to find an AD domain
controller on the domain by having it configured as one of their preferred dns server
in tcp/ip properties. If the server taken offline was a domain controller and the
domain computers used it for dns, that could explain the problem. Otherwise you may
have a AD replication problem which using gpotool could verify. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382 -- AD dns FAQ.
 
If there are two DCs and they run (should run) DNS on each one. All the
other machines on the network need to include the DNS IP# of *both* DCs in
their network settings. It doesn't do any good to only have one in the
network settings if that one happens to be down at the moment,...they aren't
going to be able to find the other DC's DNS automatically.
 
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