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It's still waiting for replication to complete. This is the one you just promo'd right?
Very Slow DNS start on domain controller restart
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Hi,
Every time I restart my domain controller, it first hangs at the following screen:
After 2-4 minutes, it will finally load into the desktop. But if I click on "DNS" application, it will say the following:
If I try to open group policy editor, it will not load until DNS loads.
DNS will finally load after about another 5 minutes.
In event viewer, under "DNS Server" I see this warning:
I haven't had a clue why this issue is occurs yet.
Thank you
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2022-03-29T01:30:04.663+00:00 this is on the primary domain controller. It occurred even before I demoted and promoted my secondary domain controller again.
Ill wait for a few hours to see if it still happens and report back then.
Maybe demoting and promoting the secondary DC will fix the issue but for now its still happening.
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Anonymous
2022-03-29T01:31:48.89+00:00 Ok, sounds good.
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2022-03-29T18:17:08.92+00:00 Hi just an update. It looks like both of them don't have the slow dns start but both servers still have the slow restart window of: Please wait for the group policy client
In Event viewer, under system I see the following errors:
IIf i cant figure it out, not the end of the world
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Anonymous
2022-03-29T18:22:52.56+00:00 Google Update Services (gupdate) service failed to start* I think you'll need to ask google or in their forums about this one. Its generally not recommended to install other services / applications on a domain controller.
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2022-03-29T18:51:51.867+00:00 interesting, I had no idea a third party service was even installed. I misread it and thought it said: gpupdate.
Ill google. Thank you
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Anonymous
2022-03-29T19:04:04.317+00:00 Sounds good, you're welcome.
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Thameur-BOURBITA 36,261 Reputation points Moderator2022-03-29T09:15:33.657+00:00 Hi,
It's normal behavior when the first replication is not yet completed because the DNS zone is integrated DNS zone therefore it's saved in active directory.
So to load DNS zone and connect to another service depending on DNS service you have to wait to complete the first AD replication.Please don't forget to mark helpful reply as answer