Hi,
I've gotten myself into a bit of a mess. Successfully installed Server 2012r2 on Friday. Raised Forest Functional Level to 2003 so it could become a DC. Spent Friday / Saturday replicating files over to it (I'm aware that DFS on a DC is not ideal. However this is my situation.)
I noticed today that after deleting and recreating namespaces and replication groups that one or two wouldn't go away. Replaced with the red cross. I have 5 namespaces / repl groups. Tried to make some mods to one and made the mistake of googling and trying various fixes, from checking DCDIAG etc and DFSRDIAG POLLAD and more. Culminating in following instructions to manually remove the corrupt entries using ADSI Edit.
4 of the groups are fine, I didn't have to mess with them. But one that I did delete re-appeared on the new server. It shows as Error on the other 3 servers. When I run DFSDIAG /TESTDCS and DFSDIAG /TestDFSIntegrity they come back fine.
At this stage I think I've messed about far too much so I'll just modify login scripts to point the users of the non-functional namespace / repl group to standard shares on one server just to ensure they have access to data and not end up in the further bad situation of people writing to multiple versions of shares.
Is there any way back from this apart from creating a new namespace / repl group and renaming file shares and replicating out again from scratch? Any way to make the new server push out it's, seemingly, still intact namespace / repl group out to the other servers overwriting the errors?
What a mess...