Eric here again. Recently I had an interesting issue with one of my customers that I caught on accident while looking for something else related to a different problem. When combing through the event log I found the following error in the event logs: After the other issue was fixed, I started to look into my new finding. In this scenario Domain.com is a relatively newly built domain that trusts the domain that MemberServer resides in, however the domain that MemberServer lives in doesn't trus... [More]

While on the topic if DNS, one of the DC's that had the corrupt application partition (discussed in my last blog entry) also had another interesting issue that's not all that common, at least in my experience. One DC in one of the child domains, was missing a few AD integrated DNS zones that were stored in the ForestDNSZones application partition, however it had other zones loaded that were stored in the same partition. To clarify what I mean when I say missing, I mean missing from the DNS conso... [More]

Right before my trip to Japan one of my Desktop machines "died". It's a BitLockered Windows 7 x64 machine. Since the machine wasn't "mission critical", it had to wait. Now, a month and a half later during the Thanksgiving holiday, I was finally able to look into the issue. Essentially all I did was a reboot to install updates. On the way back up, it essentially said no bootable disk, press F1 to continue. How exciting…. Also, though, I'm a "Platforms" engineer, my specialty isn't "setup",... [More]