Windows 2008 Domain Controllers

Trouble Running adprep /rodcprep on Windows 2008 R2 DC

I have a customer who I was trying to run the adprep /rodcprep command on the main 2008 R2 Domain Controller and I keep getting

Adprep failed the operation on partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=xxxxxx,DC=local

And

Adprep failed the operation on partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=xxxxxxx,DC=local

I finally tracked down that there was a old failed Domain Controller still showing up as a Role holder causing the problem. I found a MS Article that said how to fix this and the KB 949257 is  and the link for this is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949257

One thing to do on this article is remove the first line of the script they have you create ad that is the ——-fixfsmo.vbs——————

 Piece as it will cause the script to fail. I ran this for both the DomainDnsZones and the ForestDnsZones and then I could adprep /rodcprep the DC so I can bring in the RO DCs

Til Later just Roger

Browsing Windows 2008 Domains or not

If you have introduced Windows 2008 Domain Controllers into your network and you are finding it hard to browse the network. On Windows 2008 Servers the Computer Browser Service is disabled. Change it to Automatic and then start the service and after a while you will find you can browse your network again.

Til Later just Roger