I have a client that has two domain controllers. When rebooting the PDC, we noticed that access to the Exchange server would stop. Traced the issue back to a GC not being found problem. Added the second DC to be a GC (it’s not recommended to have the Infrastructure Owner be a Global Catalog server, but with only 2 servers to play with…) so that the user systems would be able to use secondary DNS.<\/p>\n
But then I noticed in the eventviewer that we were receiving an error:
\nReplication Failure: The reason is: The source server is currently rejecting replication requests.
\nNot good.
\nYou can find out the exact error easier by going to Start >> Run >> replmon. Add your entire domain to the list, then expand out the servername. You’ll see red x’s on the non-replicating servers. Click on one of those red x’s to see the exact logs.<\/p>\n
The fix: I have a client that has two domain controllers. When rebooting the PDC, we noticed that access to the Exchange server would stop. Traced the issue back to a GC not being found problem. Added the second DC to be a GC (it’s not recommended to have the Infrastructure Owner be a Global Catalog server, … Continue reading Domain Controller Replication Failure<\/span>
\nIn a command window, type:
\nrepadmin \/options SERVERNAME -DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL<\/code>
\nrepadmin \/options SERVERNAME -DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL<\/code>
\nThe “-” is very important in this instance. It removes the restrictions. + would therefore add the restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"