I had a situation where I was having 3 Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers located in 3 different sites, namely Site A, SiteB and Site C . The newly created GROUP POLICY OBJECT'S on the Domain Controller were not replicating to other 2 Additional Domain Controllers. As a normal troubleshooting procedure I disabled the Antivirus, Firewall on all the sites and gave a shot but unfortunately it didnt helped, then I tried to run the command rsop.msc from the Windows Xp client and ended with an Error.
Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below. The system cannot find the path specified. Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other components is not available.
Again I went to the server and the the event ID if any and found Event ID 13568.
According to the event ID:13568, it indicates that the domain controller is in a journal wrap state. Now what iare Hournal Wrap Entries See here.
http://blogs.technet.com/instan/archive/2009/07/14/what-happens-in-a-journal-wrap.aspx
Resolution to the Above Scenario is as Follows.
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Stop FRS.
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Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
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Locate and click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore/Process at Startup
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On the Edit menu, click Add Value , and then add the following registry value:
Value name: BurFlags
Data type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Hexadecimal
Value data: D2
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Quit Registry Editor.
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Restart FRS.
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For more details on this subject please refer
Troubleshooting journal_wrap errors on Sysvol and DFS replica sets
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292438
Using the BurFlags registry key to reinitialize File Replication Service replica sets
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290762
How to rebuild the SYSVOL tree and its content in a domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315457
Monitoring and Troubleshooting the File Replication Service
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/tshootfrs.mspx
Why is placing the Sysvol directory on a separate partition a good practice?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/tips/tips_091404.mspx
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