I wanted to test something involving Exchange so I opened my d:\Virtual Machines folder on my system and searched for something with exchange on it. I found MBX01 and booted the VM. Oddly I couldn't log on using my domain admin. It got an error saying the password was wrong. So I logged on using the local administrator. In the event viewer we can see that the machine has been offline for a year + 7 days. However according to AskDS: Machine Account Password Process a machine which is offline for a long period of time should be able to connect to the domain without issues. Either way, if you got the following events in your event log:
NETLOGON, Event ID 3210
This computer could not authenticate with \\DC01.home.local, a Windows domain controller for domain HOME, and therefore this computer might deny logon requests. This inability to authenticate might be caused by another computer on the same network using the same name or the password for this computer account is not recognized. If this message appears again, contact your system administrator.
GroupPolicy, Event ID 1129
The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller. This may be a transient condition. A success message would be gener [...]
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