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charlie4872
Feb 03, 2020Brass Contributor
New Active Directory Domain Services Connection
I have a domain controller in a site that is no longer able to communicate or replicate out to other DC's. My question is can I add a new AD Site connection or AD replication partner to a new DC in a...
HidMov
Feb 03, 2020Iron Contributor
Hi charlie4872,
In your position, I would first look to see why this particular DC is no longer replicating to the others - are there network problems at the site, OS problems with the DC itself etc? If your not familiar, the Active Directory File replication tool is a handy GUI to identify replication issues between different domain controllers
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30005
Alternatively, the repadmin cmd is also very powerful at getting at the problem of replication issues.
You can look at trying to add new sites and get DC's to try and reach the problem DC, but I tend to find it better to get to the root cause rather than add more moving parts to the mix.
Hope this helps,
Mark