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adprep /rodcprep errors

I'm trying to install a Server 2008 DC into our domain. All the current DCs are running Server 2003, so I am trying to prepare the domain to accept a 2008 DC. The forestprep and domainprep ran successfully. When I try to run adprep /rodcprep on the current DC that has the FSMO roles, I get the errors below. I have already tried the script in this MS KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949257
The FSMO roles all appear to be assigned correctly, and when I went back through another metadata cleanup process, I didn't find anything that needed to be removed. Any suggestions for where to go from here would be greatly appreciated, as I am far from being an AD expert.
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Adprep connected to the domain FSMO: 2701print.nstarmpls.mds.

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Adprep found partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds, and is about to update the permissions.

Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds.

Adprep encountered an LDAP error.
Error code: 0x0. Server extended error code: 0x0, Server error message: (null).

Adprep failed the operation on partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds.
Skipping to next partition.
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Adprep found partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds, and is about to update the permissions.

Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds.

Adprep encountered an LDAP error.
Error code: 0x0. Server extended error code: 0x0, Server error message: (null).

Adprep failed the operation on partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds.
Skipping to next partition.
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Adprep detected the operation on partition DC=nstarmpls,DC=mds has been performed. Skipping to next partition.
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Adprep completed with errors. Not all partitions are updated. See the ADPrep.log
in the C:\WINDOWS\debug\adprep\logs\20110217134132 directory for more information.

To successfully update all partititions, the current logged on user needs to be a member of Enterprise Admins group. If that is not the case, please correct the problem, and then restart Adprep.

Mike Kline

Have you looked at this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949257

Out of curiosity are you planning to deploy RODCs?

thanks

Mike

boyerm25

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Yes, I have already looked at that KB article (please see original post for more details). We may be deploying RODCs, as we have several domain controllers in branch offices.

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Darius Ghassem

See if this helps as well.
http://bsmith9999.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

boyerm25

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DCDiag led me to some FRS errors on one of my branch office domain controllers. I've fixed those. I also realized that I may not have run the script from the MS article on both of the partitions that were showing up in my errors, so I ran it again. I'm now giving everything some time to replicate and I'll see what happens then.

boyerm25

ASKER

Ok, after giving it a couple of hours to replicate, it all works now. Thanks for the suggestions!