Removing FRS entries

[Stevehewitt]

Hi Guys,

NTFRSUTL DS shows a number of tombstoned objects - an old DC that collapsed on us a while back called 'Backoffice'.

This is causing errors in AD (event logs and DCDIAG), so how can I remove any reference to this old server in FRS? (Can't really find anything on the MS site)

Cheers,




Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

have you performed a metadata cleanup...metadatacleanup will remove references to the old DC...

-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging00, MCSA03, A+
Sr. Infrastructure Management Analyst
Distributed Systems Engineering
ACS, Inc.

 

[Stevehewitt]

Yeah, tried using NTDSUTIL and cleaned it all up. (This was about 2-3 months ago) - but didn't look into FRS or anything that deep as everything at the time looked fine. (schoolboy error!)

Weird though - as you say, a metadata cleanup should sort it all out but it's only listing the live and fully running DC's that are in service, not the 'dead' one. Yet the dead one is shown as failing to replicate in the even logs and is listed as a valid server in NTFRSUTIL...!

Cheers,




Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

ok so he's still tied into the frs member object somewhere...

use adsiedit.msc

look in domain container-->
--> cn=system
--> cn=file replication service
-->cn=domain system volume

look for any reference to the old DC
if none is lcoated there, you need to identify the DCs that get this error, or verify that all DCs get this error...at that point, you need to look into attributes like frs<XXX>, etc.


if your DCs are not running SP1, you need to also do some manual cleanup in adsiedit after doing the metadata cleanup or things like this can happen...SP1 installed on all DCs or no?

-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging00, MCSA03, A+
Sr. Infrastructure Management Analyst
Distributed Systems Engineering
ACS, Inc.