sdibias Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 Well here is what happened.... (This is a test lab) I have one domain with three sites, each site has a preferred bridge-head server for intersite replication. Yesterday, I performed A back-up of the system state data (so far so good). Today, an OU was deleted from one of the DCs. By the time I got around to it replication had occurred. I Restarted the DC in AD restore mode, performed a non-authoritative restore of the system state back-up I made yesterday.Then instead of restarting I opened the command prompt to perform an authoritative restore on the OU. Here is what I did: C:>ntdsutil ntdsutil:authoritative restore authoritative restore:restore subtree ou=temp,dc=dibias,dc=local The response I got was not good...... Opening DIT database..... could not initialize the jet engine: jet error -528 authoritative restore failed The next time I rebooted it told me Directory Services could not start and to restart in AD restore mode. So I did, the first thing I checked was event viewer. Error 528 please contact Microsoft support services for assistance Next I right clicked My computer and chose properties, only to find that the name of the Domain was *unknown* ? I killed my Active Directory :( Luckily I am in LAB mode :) sdibias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdibias Posted July 24, 2001 Author Share Posted July 24, 2001 Ok, get this....... My domain name was dibias.local , but when I was doing the authoritative restore I actually typed dibias.com ! That's what screwed me, the dc=com....... That's it folks, remember what you use be it com, net, local or whatever, this is what screwed my AD ! Comments, Suggestions ? sdibias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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