Hi All,
I am reviewing and recreating the group policies which we currently use. I have just noticed that they are not being replicated in between the domain controllers. I did some troubleshooting and thought that it might be useful to ask you guys.
We have two domain controllers on site, which run Server 2008 R2 Standard. Let's name them DC1 and DC2.
All group policy changes have been carried out on DC1 and I am now at the testing phase. I have multiple machines for testing and they will switch in between two DC's on every single restart which seems to be normal. What I found was that when user authenticates against DC1, policies are applied successfully. When user authenticates against DC2, policies will fail to apply, at least most of them. It will also fail when I issue gpupdate /force.
I have logged on to DC2 and I can see that my policy objects have replicated, however when I click on any of the new policies which I have just created I get an error pop up message saying 'The system cannot find the file specified' and then computer configuration and user configuration says 'No settings defined' although there is a lot on DC1.
When I force manual replication in Active Directory Sites and Services, noting happens. No changes.
When I look into Active Directory Sites and Services default-first-site-name NTDS Site Settings configuration (2 DC's are in this one) it says that Server is DC2 under Inter-Site Topology Generator. Should it not be DC1?
I checked replication configuration for each server and it seems to be correct, one per hour, dc1 from dc2, dc from dc1.
Does anybody know on how to fix this issue?
All the best!