Disabled Domain Controller

I have a DC that I thought was dead for good, so I removed it through
asdiedit. Later I find out that because of other network issues that
I have, I needed to have that server back up, so was able to resurect
it. It re-registered itself in DNS and is serving login requests.
But, it shows in Active Directory as disabled as well as there are no
NTDS settings. Can this be fixed? If I log into that particular DC,
it's Sites and Settings have the the NTDS settings, as it has never
received replication from the other servers that it is gone.

So, two questions, can I enable the DC machine account somehow? and
Is there somehow of repairing the NTDS settings? Thanks.

Meinolf
Mon Mar 24 14:12:38 PDT 2008

Hello athos_01,

Just to get you right, the DC was removed from the domain with adsiedit and
all infos about the DC where deleted and the DC was just shutdown and placed
in the "corner". Then you reconnected the DC to the domain? Will not work
because you have removed every information form the object in AD.

So you have to disconnect from the network FIRST, then demote it to member
server, reconnect to the network and promote it in the domain again as additional
dc in an existing domain.

If i misunderstand the way you did it please correct me.

Best regards

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> I have a DC that I thought was dead for good, so I removed it through
> asdiedit. Later I find out that because of other network issues that
> I have, I needed to have that server back up, so was able to resurect
> it. It re-registered itself in DNS and is serving login requests.
> But, it shows in Active Directory as disabled as well as there are no
> NTDS settings. Can this be fixed? If I log into that particular DC,
> it's Sites and Settings have the the NTDS settings, as it has never
> received replication from the other servers that it is gone.
>
> So, two questions, can I enable the DC machine account somehow? and
> Is there somehow of repairing the NTDS settings? Thanks.
>

athos_01
Mon Mar 24 14:19:18 PDT 2008



You have it correct, unfortunately, my other network issues are the
fact that it is the only server that will act as a global catalog
server. I have enabled GC on two other servers, they show no errors,
show up in DNS just fine, but no machine uses them. My Exchange
server will not load without this junk DC turned on as it is the only
one that will work as a GC. Therefore, I can't dcpromo down, then
dcpromo back up.

Thanks for any help, I'm really in a pickle.

Hank
Tue Mar 25 02:32:22 PDT 2008

athos_01 wrote:
>
> You have it correct, unfortunately, my other network issues are the
> fact that it is the only server that will act as a global catalog
> server. I have enabled GC on two other servers, they show no errors,
> show up in DNS just fine, but no machine uses them. My Exchange
> server will not load without this junk DC turned on as it is the only
> one that will work as a GC. Therefore, I can't dcpromo down, then
> dcpromo back up.
>
> Thanks for any help, I'm really in a pickle.

Did you reboot the servers that you assigned as global catalogs? It's
necessary....

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services