Yesterday, we took a Windows Server 2003 box offline and retired it for good. We were unaware at the time of removal that this server was part of the DFS infrastructure. It did not host any shares, but..it was the primary root server for this particular namespace.
After some research, I ran the command: dfsutil /root:\\domain.com\share /export:share.txt
The results were as follows:
<Root Name="\\***\***" Comment="DFS Root" State="1" Timeout="300" >
<Target Server="DEADSERVER" Folder="***" State="2" />
How can i migrate this role from "DEADSERVER" to another? We are unable to access the 2003 DFS console, and receive the "RPC Server Unavailable" message. As a result, no clients can access any of the DFS shares because the
primary server is offline.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Josh