I recently ran dcpromo on a DC to demote the server. The DC had been replicating with a second DC, which was able to pull up and view the DFS shares with the DFS manager as was a file server that was able to view the shares as well and also hosted the shares configured in DFS.
Since demoting the first DC, whenever I try to pull up the DFS manager on any of these servers, I am able to see the namespace, but when I select it, I get the error - “The namespace cannot be queried. Element not found.”
How can I restore the namespace? It’s on a test network that does not have backups.
I only have a few shares configured within DFS, would it make more sense to just rebuild DFS? I’ve tried doing that already though with the same name, but can’t as the name exists. Could rebuilding cause a problem with my SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares?