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Brandon Fogliano
Copper Contributor
Sep 10, 2025

DCs not replicating across VPN

I am at a loss here.  I have looked at every CMD option I can find, verified DNS and cannot get my DCs replicating across the VPN.  I don't understand how I was able to join the domain but now the co...
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Brandon Fogliano's avatar
Brandon Fogliano
Copper Contributor
Sep 10, 2025

I just tried to demote and remove all DC and DNS functions of the server.  Reinstalled and during promo got this error: 

The operation failed because:

Failed to identify the requested replica partner (CTG-CDC01.CTGUSA.local) as a valid domain controller with a machine account for (CTG-DC2-OP$). This is likely due to either the machine account not being replicated to this domain controller because of replication latency or the domain controller not advertising the Active Directory Domain Services.  Please consider retrying the operation with \\CTG-DC-OP.CTGUSA.local as the replica partner.


"The server is unwilling to process the request."

I can ping the server by IP and DNS name as well as the domain.  But oddly I have one IP set as the primary DNS server for this server, but it's using a different server to ping the domain.  Is this based on location? 

 

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