I had an iSCSI attached drive connected to Failed_DFS_Server. The server had a hardware failure and is offline.
I have two production DCs and a new W2K8 R2 server with DFS role installed, New_DFS_Server. I've attached the iSCSI drive to it, shared out the drives again from that new server, but can't create a new namespace that is the same as the old one, "DFS". I can create new namespaces with no issues.
Namespace server wizard on New_DFS_Server:
Server: New_DFS_Server
Namespace: DFS
Fails
Namespace server wizard on New_DFS_Server:
Server: New_DFS_Server
Namespace: Public
Works
What I want to be able to do is retain the "DFS" name since all the GPO scripts point to that.
I ran this on New_DFS_Server:
C:\Users\administrator.MyDomain>dfsutil /pktinfo
3 entries...
Entry: \MyDomain\DFS
ShortEntry: \MyDomain\DFS
Expires in 0 seconds
UseCount: 0 Type:0x8081 ( REFERRAL_SVC DFS FAILBACK_ENABLED )
0:[\Failed_DFS_Server\DFS] AccessStatus: 0xc00000be ( ACTIVE TARGETSET )
Entry: \MyDomain.local\dfs
ShortEntry: \MyDomain.local\dfs
Expires in 0 seconds
UseCount: 0 Type:0x8081 ( REFERRAL_SVC DFS FAILBACK_ENABLED )
0:[\Failed_DFS_Server\DFS] AccessStatus: 0xc00000be ( ACTIVE TARGETSET )
Entry: \MyDomain.local\sysvol
ShortEntry: \MyDomain.local\sysvol
Expires in 456 seconds
UseCount: 0 Type:0x1 ( DFS )
0:[\Active_DC02.MyDomain.local\sysvol] AccessStatus: 0 ( ACTIVE TARGETSET )
1:[\Active_DC01.MyDomain.local\sysvol]
DfsUtil command completed successfully.
New_DFS_Server installed roles via PoSH get-windowsfeatures query:
Display Name Name
------------ ----
[X] File Services File-Services
[X] File Server FS-FileServer
[X] Distributed File System FS-DFS
[X] DFS Namespaces FS-DFS-Namespace
[X] DFS Replication FS-DFS-Replication
[X] File Server Resource Manager FS-Resource-Manager
[X] Remote Server Administration Tools RSAT
[X] Role Administration Tools RSAT-Role-Tools
[X] File Services Tools RSAT-File-Services
[X] Distributed File System Tools RSAT-DFS-Mgmt-Con
[X] File Server Resource Manager Tools RSAT-FSRM-Mgmt
[X] SNMP Services SNMP-Services
[X] SNMP Service SNMP-Service
[X] SNMP WMI Provider SNMP-WMI-Provider
[X] Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) PowerShell-ISE
What I would like assitance with is getting the Failed_DNS_Server flushed from the New_DNS_Server records, I'm guessing this is the conflict, since it's physcially offline.