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Can't change the functional level
I work on a VMWare environment with one domain controller after I deleted a second one (delete from disk) and now I get “The functional level could not be raised. The error is: the directory service is busy” when I try to raise the functional level from windows 2000 to windows 2003. How would I do this?
Any help will be appreciated.
Any help will be appreciated.
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That's OK when you have more than one DC, in my case I only have one, used to have 2 but like I mentioned I delete from disk the second one.
Hi,
Did you transfer all the roles to the one server that was left? if yes, you need to clean the AD metadata.
The following link explain the procedure to clean the metadata
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498
Regards
Did you transfer all the roles to the one server that was left? if yes, you need to clean the AD metadata.
The following link explain the procedure to clean the metadata
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498
Regards
When you run netdom query dc how many DCs you see. If only 1 then you need to change the DNS settings and make current DC as authoritative time server and perform reboot. If there are 2 DCs then you need to run metadata cleanup, remove DNS records and delete container object from DS sites and services. Once everything is done run repadmin /kcc *.
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http://terenceluk.blogspot.hk/2011/04/upgrading-active-directory-forest-level.html