FRS will not replicate from Domain Controllers to a new DC in Cleveland.
I recently re-imaged a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 domain controller in Cleveland, OH that was misbehaving. I joined the newly created member server into my domain. I did all MS updates and Mcafee anti virus software. We have about 22 Domain Controllers on 18 different sites across the country. All DCs are Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 with raised domain functional level. Each site has one Global Catalog server. All FSMO are one DC in Glendale, California. This is strictly production domain not corporate domain. No Exchange running on this domain only some third party production applications. Any given time not more than 100 users from different sites are connected to this domain.
After installed DNS services on the machine I ran DCPROMO. The promotion wentfine, at least I thought so. The next day I found out that it is not replicating TO/FROM other DCs, except it did replicate TO one DC in Fairfield, California. During my troubleshooting process I found out that the DCPROMO did not create SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares, so File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication TO/FROM this DC to the other DCs in the domain. This is the error on the Event View/File Replication“The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from DCx to DCy for c:\windows\sysvol\ domainusing the DNS name DCy. FRS will keep retrying.
Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning
The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from DCx to DCy for c:\windows\sysvol\ domain using the DNS name DC NAME. FRS will keep retrying.
Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning.
[1] FRS can not correctly resolve the DNS name DC NAME from this computer.
[2] FRS is not running on DC NAME.
[3] The topology information in the Active Directory for this replica has not yet replicated to all the Domain Controllers.
This event log message will appear once per connection, after the problem is fixed you will see another event log message indicating that the connection has been established.
I can ping IP and name from any and all servers. Computer shows in DOMAIN CONTROLLER OU in ADUC of all DCs. All settings in ADSS seems fine. When tried to run ADD MONITORED SERVER in Replmon on the FSMO holder DC I receive this error message "The server (new DC name) could not be contacted or you had insufficient permissions to read the status of the server"