once i promote a domain controller to be a global catalog server, how long
does it
take before it starts to advertise itself as being a global catalog server?
this one
DC, i promoted it to GC over a month ago. when i run dcdiag, in the
advertising
test it says warning: SERVER is not advertising as a global catalog.check
that
server finished GC promotion. how does one check if GC promotion finished?

then it says check the event log on server that enough source replicas for
the
GC are available. what the heck does that mean?

You can do a repadmin /showreps and check all of the partitions for
replication that way.

Also if you look at the rootdse a completed GC will have the attribute
isGlobalCatalogReady set to true.

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yes the attribute isGlobalCatalogReady is set to true, yet the server is
still
not advertising as a global catalog. why is it not?

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Doublecheck that it isn't advertising by

1. Testing the GC port
2. Checking for the appropriate DNS entries.

If those two items are ok, it is advertised fine and may be something with
dcdiag.


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