FSMO Roles seem to not transfer

Hello,
We are adding a new Server 08 to our domain. Currently it only has a 03 DC. I setup the new DC, promoted it to a DC, and used the GUI to transfer the PDC, RID Master roles to the new server. I checked it the next day, and when I use teh GUI method
to check the roles, the top box is getting an error, and the second box is still the old value. When i try to change it, it tells me that it can not connect to the PDC. I get this error on both DC's.
When trying with the NTDSUtil tool, i can see the new server having 5 roles, but i only assigned 2. There are no errors when i try with the NTDSUtil tool.
IS the Gui just wrong? Or is there another problem i am not seeing?

FSMO roles are flexible & can be transferred to any DC. Secondly, if you are transferring PDCe role, you need to reconfigure time server role too on the new box going to be hold PDCe role.
Windows Time Server Role In Active Directory Forest/Domain
Please post result of below cmds.
Netdom query dc
Netdom Query FSMO
http://www.techunboxed.com/2012/07/how-to-transfer-fsmo-roles-in-windows.html
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DCPROMO fails because of FSMO roles...normal solutions not working

I am trying to remove a 2008 R2 DC from our domain but receive this error:
"Directory Service is missing mandatory configuration information...unable to determine ownership of floating single-master operation roles"
In the even log we have this additional error:
Error:
Ownership of the following FSMO role is set to a server which is deleted or does not exist.
Operations which require contacting a FSMO operation master will fail until this condition is corrected.
FSMO Role: CN=Infrastructure,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=lvcinc,DC=local
FSMO Server DN: CN=NTDS Settings\0ADEL:464a6261-2c82-4ac1-b2b2-144d2e5e1b74,CN=SDOCS1\0ADEL:27fa192a-1f79-4a62-9557-d14ce99406d9,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=lvcinc,DC=local
User Action:
1. Determine which server should hold the role in question.
2. Configuration view may be out of date. If the server in question has been promoted recently, verify that the Configuration partition has replicated from the new server recently. If the server in question has been demoted recently and the role transferred, verify that this server has replicated the partition (containing the latest role ownership) lately.
3. Determine whether the role is set properly on the FSMO role holder server. If the role is not set, utilize NTDSUTIL.EXE to transfer or seize the role. This may be done using the steps provided in KB articles 255504 and 324801 on http://support.microsoft.com.
4. Verify that replication of the FSMO partition between the FSMO role holder server and this server is occurring successfully.
Steps to try resolving:
Investigating the above error - it is referencing a Very old DC from a few years ago "SDOCS1". See bold type above.
1. Ran DCDiag /v /q on all servers and the only errors we receive are the ones that are manifested due to NOT having run the RODC switch with ADPREP
(Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn't have
   Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=lvcinc,DC=local
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn't have
   Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=lvcinc,DC=local
......................... SVHOST2 failed test NCSecDesc
2. Checked the location of the FSMO roles and they are all located on our SDC1 server. I even transferred the Infrastructure FSMO role to a different server and the DCPROMO to remove the server still failed with the same above error.
3. Ran through the "Seizing" of the roles specified by this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504. The server mentioned in the error (SDOCS1) doesn't hold any of the roles and isn't listed in the list of servers
3. Went through this KB about removing the metadata of the defunct server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498. The server mentioned doesn't exist in any of the locations.
I'm at a loss as to how to resolve this. Somewhere the AD Database has a reference to that old server (SDOCS1). I have looked in all the obvious places in ADSIEDIT and DNS and have found no reference to it.
I know I can do a force removal of this server (SVHOST2) - but it seems that I need to fix the greater problem of removing the referencen to SDOCS1.
Thanks for any help for this perplexing issue!
-David Miller

I am having a similar problem with our AD structure. My predecessor replaced a failed DC without performing any cleanup afterwards, and my first Monday on the job, our (newer) main AD server corrupted its SAM due to a failed drive and wouldn't login. This
forced me to seize all the roles from the failing server to a secondary DC which was then promoted as our GC server. I'm in the process of migrating to a virtualized environment, and have promoted the VM AD server (AD1), but it fails to demote the other AD
server (Zeus) even though all 5 FSMO roles are now held by AD1. I ran through the suggestions earlier in this thread, and found DCDiag
/v /q  to be most helpful. Piping the results to a text file, I was able to determine that the first failed AD server still exists to some extent in our AD.
   Starting test: KccEvent
   * The KCC Event log test
   A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x8000082B
   Time Generated: 12/07/2010 09:30:04
   Event String:
   Ownership of the following FSMO role is set to a server which is deleted or does not exist.
   Operations which require contacting a FSMO operation master will fail until this condition is corrected.
   FSMO Role: CN=Infrastructure,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=icucare,DC=local
   FSMO Server DN: CN=NTDS Settings\0ADEL:b59defe5-ba6e-4db4-a738-b24ffd8281b2,CN=WIN-WOI3YAPEZMC\0ADEL:b08771ed-4884-47b8-9b0c-4f2304279843,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=icucare,DC=local
What steps must I take to remove server WIN-W0U3YAPEZMC from our domain? This server no longer exists and I would NEVER give a server a name that I couldn't easily pronounce when discussing it with management :-) I have attempted a metadata cleanup but this
old server is still showing up in our AD, preventing me from demoting an existing AD server so it can be replaced with a newer, virtualized version.
Many thanks for your help.
- Jeff Sepeta, network admin

Is it Possible to Promote DC on a Subnet With Connectivity to a Site DC But Not DC with FSMO Roles???

I apologize in advance for the rambling novella, but I tried to include as many details ahead of time as I could.
I guess like most issues, this one's been evolving for a while, it started out with us trying to add a new member
to a replication group that's on a subnet without connectivity to the FSMO roles holder. I'll try to describe the
layout as best as I can up front.
The AD only has one domain & both the forest & domain are at 2008R2 function level. We've got two sites defined in
Sites & Services, Site A is an off-site datacenter with one associated subnet & Site B with 6 associated subnets, A-F.
The two sites are connected by a WAN link from a cable provider. Subnets E & F at Site B have no connectivity to Site A
across that WAN, only what's available through the front side of the datacenter through the public Internet. The network
engineering group involved refuses to route that WAN traffic to those two subnets & we've got no recourse against that
decision; so I'm trying to find a way to accomplish this without that if possible.
The FSMO roles holder is located at Site A. I know that I can define a Site C, add Subnets E & F to that site, & then
configure an SMTP site link between Sites A & C, but that only handles AD replication, correct? That still wouldn't allow me, for example,
to enumerate DFS namespaces from subnets E & F, or to add a fileserver on either of those subnets as a member to an existing
DFS replication group, right? Also, root scalability is enabled on all the namespace shares.
Is there a way to accomplish both of these things without transferring the FSMO roles from the original DC at Site A to, say,
the bridgehead DC at Site B?
When the infrastructure was originally setup by a former analyst, the topology was much more simple & everything was left
under the Default First Site & no sites/subnets were setup until fairly recently to resolve authentication issues on
Subnets E & F... I bring this up just to say, the FSMO roles holder has held them throughout the build out & addition of
all sorts of systems & I'm honestly not sure what, if anything, the transfer of those roles will break.
I definitely don't claim to be an expert in any of this, I'll be the first to say that I'm a work-in-progress on this AD design stuff,
I'm all for R'ing the FM, but frankly I'm dragging bottom at this point in finding the right FM. I've been digging around
on Google, forums, & TechNet for the past week or so as this has evolved, but no resolution yet.
On VMs & machines on subnets E & F when I go to DFS Management -> Namespace -> Add Namespaces to Display..., none show up
automatically & when I click Show Namespaces, after a few seconds I get "The namespaces on DOMAIN cannot be enumerated. The
specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". If I run a dfsutil /pktinfo, nothing shows except \sysvol
but I can access the domain-based DFS shares through Windows Explorer with the UNC path \\DOMAIN-FQDN\Share-Name then when
I run a dfsutil /pktinfo it shows all the shares that I've accessed so far.
So either I'm doing something wrong, or, for some random large, multinational company, every sunbet & fileserver one wants
to add to a DFS Namespace has to be able to contact the FSMO roles holder? Or, are those ADs broken down with a child domain
for each Site & a FSMO roles holder for that child domain is located in each site?

Hi Matthew,
Unfortunately a lot of the intricacies of DFS leave my head as soon as I’m done with a particular design or troubleshooting situation but from memory, having direct connectivity to the PDC emulator for a particular domain is the key to managing domain based
DFS.
Have a read of this article for the differences between “Optimize for consistency” vs “Optimize for scalability”:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737400(v=ws.10).aspx
In brief, I’d say they mean:
In consistency mode the namespace servers always poll the PDCe for the latest and greatest information on the namespaces they are hosting.
In scalability mode the namespace servers should poll the closest DC for information on the namespaces they are hosting.
The key piece of information in that article about scalability mode is: “Updates are still made to the namespace object in Active Directory on the PDC emulator, but namespace servers do not discover those changes until the updated namespace object replicates
(using Active Directory replication) to the closest domain controller for each namespace server.”
I read that as saying you can have a server running DFS-N as long as it has connectivity to a DC but if you want to make changes, do them from a box that has direct connectivity to the PDCe. Then let AD replication float those changes out to your other DCs
where the remote DFS-N server will eventually pick them up. Give it a try and see how you get on.
That being said, you may want to double check that you have configured the most appropriate FSMO role placement in your environment's AD design:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754889(v=ws.10).aspx
And a DFS response probably wouldn’t be complete without an AskDS link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/07/24/common-dfsn-configuration-mistakes-and-oversights.aspx
These links may also help:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/08/26/dfs-namespace-scalability-considerations.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/12/30/windows-server-dfs-namespaces-reference.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/06/26/how-many-dfs-n-namespaces-servers-do-you-need.aspx
I hope this helps,
Mark

DC not functioning with FSMO roles

hello every body,
I have 0 DC and 01 ADC lets say that DC and ADC. both were replicating AD and working properly. few days ago the motherboard of my DC failed and we replaced with new one. and obviously NIC card was attached with M.Board which also changed. when i boot up
my DC, i see its not functioning as domain controller as i saw in server manager all FSMO roles are with red cross. i assign the ip address which it hold previous i.e 192.168.0.1. but still FSMO roles are disabled. While my only ADC is working properly with
following errors and warning in AD DS roles.
Warning on ADC:
The remote server which is the owner of a FSMO role is not responding. This server has not replicated with the FSMO role owner recently.
Error on ADC:
Log Name: Directory Service
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService
Date: 12/15/2014 11:18:07 AM
Event ID: 1863
Task Category: Replication
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: ANONYMOUS LOGON
Computer: KHI-ADC.jehanpakistan.com
Description:
This is the replication status for the following directory partition on this directory server.
Directory partition:
DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=jehanpakistan,DC=com
This directory server has not received replication information from a number of directory servers within the configured latency interval.
Latency Interval (Hours):
24
Number of directory servers in all sites:
1
Number of directory servers in this site:
1
The latency interval can be modified with the following registry key.
Registry Key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters\Replicator latency error interval (hours)
To identify the directory servers by name, use the dcdiag.exe tool.
You can also use the support tool repadmin.exe to display the replication latencies of the directory servers. The command is "repadmin /showvector /latency <partition-dn>".
My DC is working properly as a System.
should i have to do something with my NIC or AD DS roles or i have to transfer FSMOs to ADC. or sieze fsmo roles of DC on ADC.
please help.

Is your DC (role holder) a DNS Server as well? I assume it is, if so open the server role properties and ensure the DNS server role shows the IP in the interface if it does not you may need to uninstall/ re-install the DNS server role (assuming it is a 2008
R2 DC or above... Also did you look at your NIC settings? Did you re-establish the exact same NIC configuration as before?
When the motherboard gets replaced and new NICS are introduced I normally look at the NIC settings and DNS Server roles... That is the Microsoft side of things. On the LAN/ WAN side of things if your network team has port security enabled on the switches
the port may be locked down due to the new MAC Address.

Impact of having the fsmo role holders not available for 14 hours...

Hi everyone, we have a situation where we will lose power to the building for 14 hours and since we don't have a generator we'll be shutting down our main site. We have 15 sites, each has a dc and the hq site has two with the fsmo roles distributed between
the two at hq. So two questions to start with:
1. What will be the impact of having the fsmo role holding domain controllers inaccessible for a period of 14 hours?
2. What will we be facing once we regain power and turn the hq dc's back on?
Look forward to hearing back about this - the power outage is this weekend though!!

Hi,
Sorry for the delay reply.
If your PDC Emulator fails, certain domain functions, security functions, can stop functioning. If anyone of the following is not happening then you should check if your PDC Emulator is working properly:
•Time is not Syncing: PDC is the default source for the client computers to sync the time. If client computers are not syncing the time then you should always check the PDC.
•User accounts are not locked out: PDC Emulator processes the account lockouts immediately for the entire domain.
For more detail information, please refer to:
FSMO - if server holding PDC Emulator fail on 2003 / 2008, what happen?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/1752b861-53d7-49f5-b066-2ca6a18070e7/fsmo-if-server-holding-pdc-emulator-fail-on-2003-2008-what-happen?forum=winserverDS
Regards.
Vivian Wang

The Wifi storage options are interesting but it seems they only allow to read files from the device on the iPad but not transfer files to the storage device via WiFi. I'm looking for a possibility to use the iPad for photography while traveling, without

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Shooting photo's in RAW format crates pretty big files that will fill up the iPad's memory pretty fast if you shoot a lot during a (let's say) month long trip.
my idea was to use load the photo's to the iPad so i could view them and sort out any bad ones. then copy them over to the storage device so i can continue using my CF cards for shooting. I have an image thank for copying the photo's directly to the HDD but it would be so sweet to be able to check them on the iPad before hand.
any suggestions?

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Hi, this is my first time to encounter this problem. Whenever i try to sync my songs from my PC to my Ipod, it doesnt seem to respond. When i drag and drop it, it hangs and could not transfer it. Please delp me... Thanks a bunch! :)

Hi, this is my first time to encounter this problem. Whenever i try to sync my songs from my PC to my Ipod, it doesnt seem to respond. When i drag and drop it, it hangs and could not transfer it. Please help me... Thanks a bunch! :

Your post is difficult to read and looks like one solid block of text...
Some very useful Info here with regard to Photo syncing and iOS Devices...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

Is It Possible to Add a Fileserver to a DFS Replication Group Without Connectivity to FSMO Roles Holder DC But Connectivity to Site DC???

I apologize in advance for the rambling novella, but I tried to include as many details ahead of time as I could.
I guess like most issues, this one's been evolving for a while, it started out with us trying to add a new member
to a replication group that's on a subnet without connectivity to the FSMO roles holder. I'll try to describe the
layout as best as I can up front.
The AD only has one domain & both the forest & domain are at 2008R2 function level. We've got two sites defined in
Sites & Services, Site A is an off-site datacenter with one associated subnet & Site B with 6 associated subnets, A-F.
The two sites are connected by a WAN link from a cable provider. Subnets E & F at Site B have no connectivity to Site A
across that WAN, only what's available through the front side of the datacenter through the public Internet. The network
engineering group involved refuses to route that WAN traffic to those two subnets & we've got no recourse against that
decision; so I'm trying to find a way to accomplish this without that if possible.
The FSMO roles holder is located at Site A. I know that I can define a Site C, add Subnets E & F to that site, & then
configure an SMTP site link between Sites A & C, but that only handles AD replication, correct? That still wouldn't allow me, for example,
to enumerate DFS namespaces from subnets E & F, or to add a fileserver on either of those subnets as a member to an existing
DFS replication group, right? Also, root scalability is enabled on all the namespace shares.
Is there a way to accomplish both of these things without transferring the FSMO roles from the original DC at Site A to, say,
the bridgehead DC at Site B?
When the infrastructure was originally setup by a former analyst, the topology was much more simple & everything was left
under the Default First Site & no sites/subnets were setup until fairly recently to resolve authentication issues on
Subnets E & F... I bring this up just to say, the FSMO roles holder has held them throughout the build out & addition of
all sorts of systems & I'm honestly not sure what, if anything, the transfer of those roles will break.
I definitely don't claim to be an expert in any of this, I'll be the first to say that I'm a work-in-progress on this AD design stuff,
I'm all for R'ing the FM, but frankly I'm dragging bottom at this point in finding the right FM. I've been digging around
on Google, forums, & TechNet for the past week or so as this has evolved, but no resolution yet.
On VMs & machines on subnets E & F when I go to DFS Management -> Namespace -> Add Namespaces to Display..., none show up
automatically & when I click Show Namespaces, after a few seconds I get "The namespaces on DOMAIN cannot be enumerated. The
specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". If I run a dfsutil /pktinfo, nothing shows except \sysvol
but I can access the domain-based DFS shares through Windows Explorer with the UNC path \\DOMAIN-FQDN\Share-Name then when
I run a dfsutil /pktinfo it shows all the shares that I've accessed so far.
So either I'm doing something wrong, or, for some random large, multinational company, every sunbet & fileserver one wants
to add to a DFS Namespace has to be able to contact the FSMO roles holder? Or, are those ADs broken down with a child domain
for each Site & a FSMO roles holder for that child domain is located in each site?

Hi,
A DC in siteB should helpful. I still not see any article mentioned that a DFS client have to connect to PDC every time trying to access a DFS domain based namespace.
Please see following article. I pasted a part of it below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782417(v=ws.10).aspx
Domain controllers play numerous roles in DFS:
Domain controllers store DFS metadata in Active Directory about domain-based namespaces. DFS metadata consists of information about entire namespace, including the root, root targets, links, link targets, and settings. By default,root servers
that host domain-based namespaces periodically poll the domain controller acting as the primary domain controller (PDC) emulator master to obtain an updated version of the DFS metadata and store this metadata in memory.
So Other DC needs to connect PDC for an updated metadata.
Whenever an administrator makes a change to a domain-based namespace, the
change is made on the domain controller acting as the PDC emulator master and is then replicated (via Active Directory replication) to other domain controllers in the domain.
Domain Name Referral Cache
A domain name referral contains the NetBIOS and DNS names of the local domain, all trusted domains in the forest, and domains in trusted forests. A
DFS client requests a domain name referral from a domain controller to determine the domains in which the clients can access domain-based namespaces.
Domain Controller Referral Cache
A domain controller referral contains the NetBIOS and DNS names of the domain controllers for the list of domains it has cached. A DFS client requests a domain controller referral from a domain controller (in the client’s domain)
to determine which domain controllers can provide a referral for a domain-based namespace.
Domain-based Root Referral Cache
The domain-based root referrals in this memory cache do not store targets in any particular order. The targets are sorted according to the target selection method only when requested from the client. Also, these referrals are based on DFS metadata stored
on the local domain controller, not the PDC emulator master.
Thus it seems to be acceptable to have a disconnect between sites shortly when cache is still working on siteB.
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Transferring FSMO roles from 2003 DC to 2012 R2 DC - and how exchange will react.

Hi Folks,
I want to transfer the FSMO roles from our current 'PDC' which is server 2003 to a new Server 2012 R2 DC. Im fine with the steps i have to perform to accomplish this but as always, the wildcard is how my exchange 2007 server will react to such a change.
Does anyone have any insight as to whether exchange will just pick up the new 'PDC' without any issues? i am going to leave the domain functional level at 2003 until i am able to migrate to exchange 2013.
thanks.
Colin Stewart

your active directory is a database, if exchange 2007 is working with the current functional level it will work after the roles are moved, the active directory database does not change when you move it to a newer domain controller, it doesn't really change
when you raise the functional level, it changed when you run adprep for a application like exchange 2007, so if it runs now moving roles to new DC will not change that ,raising your functional level will give you more features in AD like recycle
bin which is nice.

Trying to create a new playlist but several songs are marked with exclamation mark and will not transfer into playlist - any advice?

I have never had trouble creating playlists before but quite a few songs will not transfer and ate marked at the side with an exclamation mark. I know ZERO about technology so if you can help me in very simple language, I would be very grateful! I am wondering if it may have something to do with the fact that I have had to start new accounts when I have moved countries, on order to be able to use the credit card of the new country in the Itunes store of that country... I am in Aus and have bought a lot of tunes here but last year I was living in Brunei and, in order to use my brunei credit card ( as it was the only one with money in it) , I had to set it up as different to my Aus account. Could this be the issue? prior to Aus my account was in Ireland. I have paid for all these songs but it seems I cannot now use some of them... Please help!!! Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer, Lisa

The exclamation mark next to a song means it is no longer where iTunes is looking for it. iTunes won't let you add such "missing" songs to a playlist. Possible reasons for a song going missing are that you or some third party software has moved or deleted it, or a folder that contained it, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter, or a configuration file has changed making iTunes look in a slightly different place from before.
Select one of the songs with an exclamation mark, press CTRL+I to Get Info, say no when prompted to locate it, then note down the location from the Summary tab that begins file://localhost/ - please post back this path as given. Hopefully you can find the file this entry in your library is supposed to be connected to. Assuming you can please post back this path as well. These two items of information may suggest a fix through folder manipulation or a configuration change.
If things have got a little more disorganized then, as long as the tracks still exist to be found, my FindTracks script should be able to reconnect them to iTunes. FindTracks uses some fuzzy matching routines and searches for multiple potential locations. For more details see this thread. Start by selecting the tracks of a single album and then run the script. Your media folder should normally be detected automatically, e.g. as C:\Users\<User>\iTunes\iTunes Media, but you can edit the path if it is wrong or a particular batch of lost files are stored at another path. If it works as expected you can then move on to fixing the rest of the library in bigger batches.
tt2

ITunes music files did not transfer afte rebooting OS software

hi there
I had to reboot system 10.3 software- I was happy because I had everything backed up on a Lacie external drive that i had formatted as a bootable disk. So when my iBook came back from the repair shop with a new blank OS and asked me if I wanted to transfer files from another computer, I did, from the Lacie hard drive. Only my iTunes music did not transfer, and so far it seems like I have to import files one by one- I can not figure out how to import the whole lot of music files.
Additionally, all my other files, mostly Word, were imported with the "created on" date all set to 1970, for some reason. That is annoying; any ideas from anyone? Thank you very much
F
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

ctblubird wrote:
Hello
A couple of years ago, I purchased my first MAC OS X 10.7.5
I transferred my iTunes library from my old PC to the new MAC.
You transferred your library to your Mac a couple of years ago?
Or you have been using the Mac for a couple of years and just now transferred the library?
I followed instructions,
What instructions did you follow?

Mp3s in Library will not transfer to iPod

Yesterday I used Real Player plus Audio Hijack pro to download a series of BBC comedy programs (from BBC7). The MP3 files were stored on my desktop. I double clicked each one and iTunes (v 5.01) opened and imported them into the library. I dragged them into existing playlists where they played perfectly on the computer.
I then connected my iPod photo and it went through an automatic update. Two of the newly downloaded files did not appear on the iPod. When I "get Info" about the files that did not transfer, they are located in the folder: iTunes Music: Podcasts: Unknown Podcast: file1.mp3 and similarly for file2.mp3
Each one appears as an MPEG audio file with format MPEG-2 level 3. Several other Real Player downloads from the same source work fine on the iPod. They are also MPEG-2 level 3 but are in folders other than "podcasts: unknown podcasts.
No matter what I do, for example deleting the two files from iTunes library and then dropping them manually on the library or on the playlist, they end up in the same unknown podcast folder.
Is there some specific reason why two of my files would go into this "unknown podcast" folder ? Is this the reason they will not transfer to the iPod? Is there some way of forcing them into the music folder? (No they do not show up under the Podcast playlist).
Am I on the wrong track completely?

Curt;
Thanks for the suggestion. I have checked the two offending files and there seems to be nothing different about them. They were digitized at 64 kb/s - the same as the others made on the same day which transfer to and play on my iPod. I have even selected them in the iTunes library and used Advanced--> convert to MP3. They get resampled and converted to 128 kb/s (and the size of each file doubles) but the result is still the same - they go into the Unknown podcast folder and will not load on my iPod.
The thing that seems to be different about them is that they automatically go into the podcast folder rather than into a music folder.
The iPod is using version 1.2 software and my iTunes is version 5.0.1
Tony

What is the best practice and Microsoft best recommended procedure of placing "FSMO Roles on Primary Domain Controller (PDC) and Additional Domain Controller (ADC)"??

Hi,
I have Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and have
2 Domain Controllers in my Company:
Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
Additional Domain Controller (ADC)
My (PDC) was down due to Hardware failure, but somehow I got a chance to get it up and transferred
(5) FSMO Roles from (PDC) to (ADC).
Now my (PDC) is rectified and UP with same configurations and settings. (I did not install new OS or Domain Controller in existing PDC Server).
Finally I want it to move back the (FSMO Roles) from
(ADC) to (PDC) to get UP and operational my (PDC) as Primary.
(Before Disaster my PDC had 5 FSMO Roles).
Here I want to know the best practice and Microsoft best recommended procedure for the placement of “FSMO Roles both on (PDC) and (ADC)” ?
In case if Primary (DC) fails then automatically other Additional (DC) should take care without any problem in live environment.
Example like (FSMO Roles Distribution between both Servers) should be……. ???
Primary Domain Controller (PDC) Should contains:????
Schema Master
Domain Naming Master
Additional Domain Controller (ADC) Should contains:????
RID
PDC Emulator
Infrastructure Master
Please let me know the best practice and Microsoft best recommended procedure for the placement of “FSMO Roles.
I will be waiting for your valuable comments.
Regards,
Muhammad Daud

Here I want to know the best practice
and Microsoft best recommended procedure for the placement of “FSMO Roles both on (PDC) and (ADC)” ?
There is a good article I would like to share with you:http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2004/06/15/fsmo.html
For me, I do not really see a need to have FSMO roles on multiple servers in your case. I would recommend making it simple and have a single DC holding all the FSMO roles.
In case if
Primary (DC) fails then automatically other Additional (DC) should take care without any problem in live environment.
No. This is not true. Each FSMO role is unique and if a DC fails, FSMO roles will not be automatically transferred.
There is two approaches that can be followed when an FSMO roles holder is down:
If the DC can be recovered quickly then I would recommend taking no action
If the DC will be down for a long time or cannot be recovered then I would recommend that you size FSMO roles and do a metadata cleanup
Attention! For (2) the old FSMO holder should never be up and online again if the FSMO roles were sized. Otherwise, your AD may be facing huge impacts and side effects.
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when you do it)
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