Hi,
We have about 15 DCs, some 2003 and some 2008R2. The 2003 ones are all good but the 2008 R2 ones seem to have strange things going on.
1. Cannot ping from unelevated command prompt, not even 127.0.0.1. Elevated command prompt is fine.
If you try to you get:
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
2. Under computer management, event viewer, applications and services logs, the following logs produce this error:
"event viewer cannot open the event log or custom view. Verify that event log service is running or query is too long. Access is denied (5)"
The logs this happens to is:
Active directory web services
DFS replication
Directory Service
DNS Server
File Replication Service
Operations Manager
Other logs are fine. The one thing to note is the file that is supposed to have the log inside does not exist, for example, "%SystemRoot%\System32\Winevt\Logs\Active Directory Web Services.evtx" points to a file which does not exist.
Very odd for 6 different DCs to have this.
Any ideas?