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SYSVOL Subscription Missing
I wouldn't spend any time trying to fix this. Much simpler / safer method is to stand up a new one for replacement.
These hacks are very risky. How long has this been going on? If the tombstone has been exceeded then you'll need to move roles off, do cleanup to remove the remnants and rebuild the failed one from scratch.
Dave Patrick completely forgot about tombstones, but I went through them and found someone deleted the objects on 7/19/23. I restored these and going to do some checking/testing.
Thanks for the reply. I probably shouldn't have been working on this at midnight and then maybe I'd remember to check the basics 🤦
The tombstone lifetime refers to how long a domain controller can be in a disconnected state. Since the sysvol was never shared it is likely since this one was deployed.
Dave Patrick not sure how long it has been gone. Last week I noticed a GP I created 2 weeks ago wasn't applied to a few PCs. Got around to checking it Thurs and found my issue Friday. Decided to wait till off hours to mess with it, Sunday, and did all this.
So, try and demote that server, and when it doesn't remove itself, delete the faulty DC from my PDCe, metadata cleanup, etc...? This is what I was thinking as well, but wanted to see if anyone else had any other ideas. FSMO roles are not on the server that I am having an issue with so no worries there.
Are you referring to the SYSVOL's Subscription Object's tombstone or?
