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Hi Everyone,<br />
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We recently took on a new customer and have discovered that they have certain issues in their environment. &nbsp;They have 2 AD sites that have 3 DCs in one and 2 DCS in the other. &nbsp;The 2 DCs SYSVOL contents are out of sync with their neighbours in the other site. &nbsp;On deeper inspection of their environment, it has also been discovered that their primary DNS zone is set to allow unsecure and secure updates - its a AD primary zone. &nbsp;They previously upgraded their server estate from Windows 2000 Server. &nbsp;I was wondering if this could be a key contributing factor any the SYSVOL issue? &nbsp;They are now going to upgrade their esate to Windows Server 2008 and we are trying weight up if it would be a better idea to start with a clean forest and leave the legacy issues behind, or continue with the current env. &nbsp;Thanks for your help in advance
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Hi Everyone,

We recently took on a new customer and have discovered that they have certain issues in their environment.  They have 2 AD sites that have 3 DCs in one and 2 DCS in the other.  The 2 DCs SYSVOL contents are out of sync with their neighbours in the other site.  On deeper inspection of their environment, it has also been discovered that their primary DNS zone is set to allow unsecure and secure updates - its a AD primary zone.  They previously upgraded their server estate from Windows 2000 Server.  I was wondering if this could be a key contributing factor any the SYSVOL issue?  They are now going to upgrade their esate to Windows Server 2008 and we are trying weight up if it would be a better idea to start with a clean forest and leave the legacy issues behind, or continue with the current env.  Thanks for your help in advance

Mismatched SYSVOL, Group Policy

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).