GPM Shortcut Windows Server 2008

Question

When I RDP to my server as administrator I have a shortcut on the desktop for Group Policy Management. When I double click it I get an a dialogue box entitled Group Policy Management Console and it reads "The specified domain controller could not be
contacted. This affects the following domain in the console. 
Domain: mydomain.local
The error was:
Access is denied"
and then it gives the following options: choose a different domain controller, retry, and remove this domain from the console.
I have never seen this before and could use some expert help on the issue.
It is a virtualized Windows Server 2008 32 bit box

Answer 1

Hi,
As Manjunath mentioned, are you logging into member server and using RSAT to access the GPM Console remotely? Can you locate remote domain controller using the following command?
nltest /dsgetdc: <remote domain name> /force
Network Connectivity
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961803.aspx
Please also try to collect the following information to make sure the domain/DCs are healthy:
dcdiag /v /c /d /e /s:dcname >c:\dcdiag.txt
repadmin /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite >c:\repl.txt (if more then one DC exists)
dnslint /ad /s "DCipaddress" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321045)
Hope this helps.
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