So I’ve moved domain controller services from an old Win 2003 server to a new Windows 2008 Server and when opening Group Policy Management to change settings on the domain, I get an error stating “Failed to open Group Policy Object. You may not have appropriate rights. Details: The network name cannot be found”.
Any help would be appreciated, I am still able to pull up the GPO from the old 2003 machine and it shows that my new domain controller is hosting the policy.
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Try opening GPMC, accept the error and then remove any forest entries from that MMC and add them back in.
That is not how GPO’s work. A GPO is created in the sysvol and replicated around the domain controllers. If a GPO is held by a single DC then it suggests that replication is broken somewhere.
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techelp
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Have you brought up a new 2008 dc on a 2003 domain or created a new domain and are trying to migrate your GPOs (etc) over to it?
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I agree with Gary, it sounds to me like your SYSVOL hasn’t replicated from your 2003 DC to your 2008 DC yet or it could be that its just broken. I would recommend taking a look in eventvwr on both DC’s at the File Replication Service logs and see if there is any further detail in there
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justin1250
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Is the 03 server still a DC?
Is it online when you get this error?
Did you transfer the FSMO roles to the 08 DC. By default the GPMC will try to load from the PDCe.
Also check DNS. Did you change DHCP to hand out the new 08 server as primary DNS. Also make sure you aren’t handing out external DNS severs to your endpoints.
Like Gary said check SYSVOl on each dc.
\03dc\sysvol\domain.com\policies
\08dc\sysvol\domain.com\policies
Do these folders match? If not there is likely a replication somewhere.
