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Did you try to demote and promote the DC.
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Did you try to demote and promote the DC.

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My client had inadvertently unplugged one of two domain controllers for an extended period of time and now of course replication fails. DNS is working fine; I seem to recall the fix is to remove one of the dcs(demote it) then promote again ?
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My client had inadvertently unplugged one of two domain controllers for an extended period of time and now of course replication fails. DNS is working fine; I seem to recall the fix is to remove one of the dcs(demote it) then promote again ?

13508 replication issue

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