Vampire against Windows 2008 R2 64-bit is BORKEN

[Zahari Zahariev]

Hello Andrew & list,

This has not been a Samab4 issue but strange configuration side effect.

Resolution:
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Issue has been resolved by editing CN=NTDS
Settings,CN=<SERVERNAME>,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,<COFIGURATION> "option" attribute from 0x7 to be 0x1.

Strange side effect:
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I have started with dcpromo of "Windows Server 2008R2 64bit" at
functional level 2000-native (both forest & domain). Then I made a
snapshot. After which I opened "Sites-and-Services" tool and from there
I started to raise the forest functional level then take snapshots.
Unfortunately after 1 or 2 of these cycles the above attribute gets
changed to 0x7 which rejects all inbound and outbound replication. As a
result of that my 2008 and 2008R2 snapshot levels did not work. 

Thanks!
 
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:26 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 21:28 +0300, Zahari Zahariev wrote:
> > Hello Andrew,
> > 
> > Your gut feeling about my Windows 2008 R2 64bit was exactly right!
> > 
> > I set up a second regular 32bit Windows 2008 (SP1) and at functional level
> > 2008 (its maximum) our vampire worked just OK where at the same functional
> > level on the 64bit Windows 2008 R2 it fails just in the beginning.
> > 
> > I am sending you debug level 100 of the vampire on the 64bit Windows 2008 R2
> > at functional level 2008.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> It would seem that this is the problem:
>        drsuapi_DsGetNCChanges: struct drsuapi_DsGetNCChanges
>         out: struct drsuapi_DsGetNCChanges
>          result                   : WERR_DS_DRA_SOURCE_DISABLED
> 
> Of course, why it gives that error is an entirely different matter, that
> we may wish to look for assistance from Microsoft with, if we can't
> figure it out ourselves. 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett