Hi,
I'm replacing servers on my network with with new servers running server
2008. I'm removing the 2 old server 2003 domain controllers. One of them
crashed and I I seized all rolls and removed all records of that server with
ntdsutil. That left me with one 2003 domain controller. I then added 2 new
2008 servers and promoted them to DCs. I transfered all FSMO roles to the
new DCs and made them global catalogs, DNS servers and DHCP servers. I
pointed all DCs to themselves and eachother for DNS. I then tried to demote
the old 2003 DC to a member server to remove it from the network. It fails
with and error that says that the "last domain controller in domain" check
box in not checked, but no other DC could be contacted.
I ran dcdiag....it says that no global catalog could be contacted.....all
GCs are down. replmon showed an error but I think I got that resolved. It
seemed like replication was working, but not 100% sure....brain is mush at
this point.
Exchange 2003 is running on another 2003 server. In Exchange managment
console, it only shows the one 2003 DC as well, nothing about the 2008 DCs.
I looks like a DNS error somewhere, but I can't find the problem.
Forest and Domain functional level are set to 2003.
Please help if anyone has suggestions.
Thanks so much.
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