{"id":2247,"date":"2022-06-09T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:09:20","slug":"how-to-re-create-windows-active-directory-global-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"How To re create Windows Active Directory Global Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometime when changing domain controller or making server adjustments , Admin&#8217;s can forget applying the role of Global Catalog to the DC causing logon problems and AD malfunction. including errors when trying to add additional DC to the domain. The first check is DCDIAG command and in context with the GC you need to run :  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dcdiag \/test:advertising<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"596\" data-id=\"2248\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Advertisingcheck.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Advertisingcheck.png 673w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Advertisingcheck-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> If this is not pass you need to rebuild the GC . from the GUI :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"495\" data-id=\"2251\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-1-1.png 717w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-1-1-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" data-id=\"2252\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-2-1.png 400w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/enable-GC-2-1-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the command Prompt you can run :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dsmod server \"&lt;ServerObjectDN>\" -isgc yes|no<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The server ObjectDN you can get from adsiedit.msc (under naming), for example :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dsmod server \"cn=DC1,cn=servers,cn=Raleigh,cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp,dc=com\" -isgc\nyes<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You must reboot the server !!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To check if the role has been added successful you can run :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">nltest \/server:&lt;servername> \/dsgetdc:&lt;domainname><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for the GC role :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"234\" data-id=\"2253\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GCrole-enabled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GCrole-enabled.png 737w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GCrole-enabled-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After that you will be able to get Active Directory health functionality regarding Global Catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><blockquote><p>Good Luck<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime when changing domain controller or making server adjustments , Admin&#8217;s can forget applying the role of Global Catalog to the DC causing logon problems and AD malfunction. including errors when trying to add additional DC to the domain. The first check is DCDIAG command and in context with the GC you need to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-tech","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}