Strange one... Worried about my PDC

Andy100

Andy100

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Hi Guys,

I'm gonna call a tech in anyway but thought I'd have a bash here as well.

Something really strange has happened to our primary domain controller.

If I power it and the secondary domain controller down then boot the PDC back up all of the active directory is missing. It logs onto the domain when you log in but when you log into AD it says there's no domain to administer.

Now if I boot up the secondary domain controller first then boot up the PDC then everything's fine, AD is all there all my sites and services work...

I'd imagine this is because it's replicating the AD from the SDC when it boots up.

When I check the event logs there's no error messages and no trace that anything was ever wrong.


Any ideas? :confused:
 
Yes it sounds like you have got it in one, I would check the AD dbase replication on your domain controllers, and I think I would be worried also... I'm really surprised that its doing that, I thought it would only do that if AD has been setup wrong...

Stelly
 
Sounds like your PDC might not be the master anymore, although even if it isn't it should still show you the AD

Have you checked everything in Active Directory Sites and Services is ok?
 
Thanks J1nxy I'll give this a go tomorrow.

The more I think about it the more I think it must be a DNS problem. I guess if the local DNS was corrupt it could have this effect as it wouldn't know where to look for the roles?
 
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