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metadata cleanup or delete replication link?

Asked by binary_1001010 in Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Server, Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

Hi guys,

Yesterady one of our server was down and we have to rebuilt the OS and restore everything from the backup. After backup was completed, i did a reboot. When the server was up and checked the eventlog, i noticed an error :

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM Event
Category: None
Event ID: 16650
The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize properly. The record data contains the NT error code that caused the failure. Windows 2000 will retry the initialization until it succeeds; until that time, account creation will be denied on this Domain Controller. Please look for other SAM event logs that may indicate the exact reason for the failure.

After going though the microsoft KB, it said :

RESOLUTION

Delete the replication links for the naming contexts in Windows 2000

In Windows 2000, you can restore a second domain controller to complete initial synchronization. If you cannot restore a second domain controller, you must either perform a metadata cleanup on the non-existent domain controllers or delete the replication links to the Active Directory naming contexts. If you plan to restore the other domain controllers later, you must delete the replication links instead of performing a metadata cleanup.
Before you can delete the replication links to the Active Directory naming contexts, you must identify the objectGUID value by using the Repadmin command. To do this, follow these steps:
1.      Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
2.      At the command prompt, type repadmin /showreps. You will see output that resembles the following:
CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=comDefault-First-Site-Name\DC02 via RPC objectGuid: 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237 Last attempt @ 2004-02-26 09:10.03 was successful.

CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com Default-First-Site-Name\DC02 via RPC objectGuid: 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237 Last attempt @ 2004-02-26 09:14.43 was successful.

DC=contoso,DC=com Default-First-Site-Name\DC02 via RPC objectGuid: 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237 Last attempt @ 2004-02-26 09:14.01 was successful.
3.      Type repadmin /delete to delete the replication links. Specify the naming context and the objectGUID as shown in the following examples:
repadmin /delete CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com DC01 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237._msdcs.contoso.com /localonly
repadmin /delete CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com DC01 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237._msdcs.contoso.com /localonly
repadmin /delete DC=contoso,DC=com DC01 97c68f88-3864-4a12-9962-ca389937e237._msdcs.contoso.com /localonly
4.      Restart the RID Master computer. The RID Master will initialize correctly.
(taken from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839879 )

On the paragraph, it mentioned "If you cannot restore a second domain controller, you must either perform a metadata cleanup on the non-existent domain controllers or delete the replication links to the Active Directory naming contexts. "

So, my question is :

how do i know I have to do delete the replication link only or metacleanup only? or both?

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metadata cleanup or delete replication link?

Asked by binary_1001010 in Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Server, Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

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