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Leavii
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Aug 28, 2023
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SYSVOL Subscription Missing

Morning,   I had an issue with a GPO not updating on a client.  Long story short, I tracked it back to a secondary DC not having a SYSVOL subscription in ADSI.  I tried using LDIFDE as suggested ht...
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    Dave Patrick
    Aug 28, 2023

    I wouldn't spend any time trying to fix this. Much simpler / safer method is to stand up a new one for replacement.    

       

     

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Dave Patrick
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Aug 28, 2023

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.     

 

 

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Leavii
Brass Contributor
Aug 28, 2023

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?

 

 

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