Corrupt Active Directory 2003
I am having two servers here. Both are running on Windows 2003 R2 server. There are around 5 different client workstations configured on the network. I had configured AD and DNs which looks to be working fine. Somehow there was a issue with one server. After power failure a drive stopped working. Due to which I found AD has corrupted. I want some help here. How can I recover it. Is there a better option available.
Re: Corrupt Active Directory 2003
Hi All
I have just gained a new customer who has a SBS 2003 R2 server that he believed was being back up. Well it was all apart from system state!!!!
The server crashed last night, not sure why yet. When I boot the server I am unable to log onto the domain, just the computer. I have managed to log on in the DSRM, but like as in this thread the NTDS is corrupt.
WIll this (maybe) work on SBS 2003 R2? also you stated that
if repair is successful, delete all the files inside NTDS folder (.log and
..chk)
Does this mean ALL files in the NTDS folder or just the .log and .chk files.
Many thanks for reading
Regards
Tony
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Jorge Silva
At the moment I don't have a machine to test those options, try the
following:
Do a backup of the original NTDS.dit database, and work on the other one:
To perform the integrity check, start a command prompt, type the following
command (including the quotation marks), and then press ENTER:
esentutl /g "path\ntds.dit" /!10240 /8 /o
To repair the database, type the following command (including the quotation
marks), and then press ENTER:
esentutl /p "path\ntds.dit" /!10240 /8 /o
if repair is successful, delete all the files inside NTDS folder (.log and
..chk)
Reboot the server.
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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services