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Group Policy refresh hangs
Name: joebagodoe Date: September 8, 2006 at 06:35:22 Pacific OS: Win 2K3 SP1 CPU/Ram: 3.2Ghz 2GB Product: HP/Proliant
Comment:
The domain I am now supporting had two domains on two controllers. domain1.com was on a win2k box and domain2.local is on a Win2K3 box. I tried to demote the Win2k box and remove the domain and trust, but I had to do a forced demotion (dcpromo /forceremoval). Now when I run gpupdate on any of the machines, including servers, it times out. All users can log in and everything appears to work, except I can't use gpupdate. All machines are XPsp2 and all servers are Win2k3 SP1.
Name: heropsycho2177 Date: September 8, 2006 at 08:35:09 Pacific
Reply:
Run dcdiag on the dc. Does it show any errors?
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Response Number 2
Name: joebagodoe Date: September 8, 2006 at 09:38:13 Pacific
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All tests pass on all servers
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Response Number 3
Name: joebagodoe Date: September 10, 2006 at 19:33:35 Pacific
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I think there is some magical place in active directory that needs cleaning, but I've only heard rumors of it and haven’t actually been there. Maybe a "metabase" or something?
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Response Number 4
Name: matty fonz Date: September 11, 2006 at 19:31:19 Pacific
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did u run a metadata cleanup after doing the forced demotion?
Name: joebagodoe Date: September 12, 2006 at 11:38:42 Pacific
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I just did, but the remnants of that server do not exist. I also checked ADSI edit and everything was clean. Perhaps it's a conflict in the policies that are running. How do I check for failed polices? I think there is a log file somewhere. Any ideas?
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