A brief description of the LAN. We have a single AD forest/domain with four child domain all running W2K3 SP2 in native mode. The parent domain have 2 DCs (DC1 & DC2). DC1 holds all five major roles plus DNS and DHCP. DC2 is a backup with DDNS running as the only othe service on it. When ran DCDIAG and NETDIAG on DC1, there were no errors. However, when I ran the same test on DC2, I get an error on the DCDIAG test: Starting test: VerifyReferences Some objects relating to the DCDC2 have problems: [1] Problem: Missing Expected Value Base Object: CN=DC2,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM Base Object Description: "DC Account Object" Value Object Attribute Name: frsComputerReferenceBL Value Object Description: "SYSVOL FRS Member Object" Recommended Action: See Knowledge Base Article: Q312862 [1] Problem: Missing Expected Value Base Object: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First Site,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM Base Object Description: "DSA Object" Value Object Attribute Name: serverReferenceBL Value Object Description: "SYSVOL FRS Member Object" Recommended Action: See Knowledge Base Article: Q312862 All other test passed and NETDIAG came up clean. I read Q312862 but could not make sense of it. There are no Event ID error relating to this and I can get to my SYSVOL share. So far, we have not experienced any problem but I would like to get it resolved.

Hello,please post an unedited "repadmin /showrepl" from DC1 and DC2. Was there a crash or restore from one of the DCs some time ago? Please post also "netdom query fsmo" from both DCs.Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

It seems the secondary DC lost all its references to the replica set. I recreated it references but I am now getting event id 13058 on the fmso server and 13562 on the 2nd DC. I will run the diags you mention and post it. thanks for the response.

I ran both the cmd on both DC and everything came back with a timestamp of 9/25/09 and roughly 8:51AM with every line showing success. Let me give youa little more information. I followed a couple of article to recreate the reference on DC2 and ran the DCDIAG again. After the recreation of the references, the VerifyReferences passed. The only thing I am seeing now is the ntfrsutl ds for the second DC end with "DC2 NOT A MEMBER OF ANY SET". As I recall during the recreation of the References, I recreated only the member objects and subscription. There were no FRS Replica Set under File Replication Container in ADSIedit of AD.