DCpromo issue. Health check on AD and group policy.

Hi Folks we have 3 domain controllers all running windows 2003 (DC with FMSO roles has SP1 and the other 2 have SP2). One of the SP2 DC's is about to suffer an imminent hard drive failure and I wanted to decommission it before it dies. We have also ...

Message posted on the June 27th, 2009 - 5:07 PM ET

Unable to decommission a Windows 2008 DC via dcpromo

I've got a Windows 2008 box that was my only DC in my test network that is on some rather aged hardware. I've built a new box to replace the old DC with, installed Server 2008 on it, added it to the domain, ran dcpromo, kicked it up to a GC, and ...

Message posted on the June 30th, 2009 - 09:57 pm ET

dcpromo a DC that does not know is a DC

Hi gurus I have a DC that I haave to rebuild the AD as I did have some DNS problems, when I try to dcpromo the DC I have no option to depromote the DC, is like the DCpromo does not not this server is a domain controler even though is publish on the ...

Message posted on the June 01st, 2009 - 03:13 pm ET

Problem with dcpromo - permissions problem

I was having a problem with our users trying to connect to our Win2K3 DC, but I think the root cause with with a connectivity problem between the Win2K3 and Win2K DCs. However, in the process of troubleshooting I did a "dcpromo ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2009 - 12:15 pm ET

Windows Server 2008 - Unable to install TMG Beta3 Second Edition

Windows 2008 Server sp2 64 bit, Primary Domain Controller, has two network card for WAN and LAN. Fresh win 2008 installation, nothing installed. Just did DCPROMO and tried to install TMGBETA3 SE The setting is installing "Core ...

Message posted on the November 04th, 2009 - 08:45 am ET

Windows Server 2008 - Unable to install TMG Beta3 SE

Windows 2008 Server sp2 64 bit, Primary Domain Controller, has two network card for WAN and LAN. Fresh win 2008 installation, nothing installed. Just did DCPROMO and tried to install TMGBETA3 SE The setting is installing "Core ...

Message posted on the November 04th, 2009 - 03:31 am ET

Windows 2008 DC in Windows 2003 domain = slow logons , warning long story

I was helping a coworker with a client of his to replace an aging Dell PE1600SC running Windows 2003 Standard SP1 with a new Dell PE running Windows 2008 Standard SP1 64 bit with dual Intel Quad Core processors, 6G of RAM, and two SAS RAID arrays - ...

Message posted on the September 21st, 2009 - 10:44 pm ET

Problem setting up Windows Storage Server 2008 as a domain control

Description: We have a domain with a Windows Server 2003 machine acting as the PDC (it is also the onyl domain controller). We bought a new machine (a Dell Powervault NX-3000) which has Windows Storage Server 2008 installed. We want to set up the ...

Message posted on the March 22nd, 2010 - 09:02 am ET

AD 1 domain/2 sites with 2 zones windows 2003

Help My AD on my remote site is not working properly. Site 1: server 2003 ip 192.168.0.2 site 2 server2 2003 ip 192.168.254.241 I dcpromo forced server2 back to workstation server status, rebooted, connect via vpn back in server domain and added ...

Message posted on the November 15th, 2009 - 09:45 pm ET

Win2k8 install killed dns domain

Hi, I had one tio.nl zone internaly with two sub domains for staff and student. The student part was not aWindows domain yet, the staff domain and tio.nl domain were already windows domains. Today I created the student.tio.nl Windows domain using ...

Message posted on the June 24th, 2009 - 02:56 pm ET

2008 migration issue

In my test lab I have an empty forest root with 1 dc and a domain tree with 1 dc. forest/domain function is 2003 server. Everything is running 100% without any errors. I prep the forest/domain in the root and prep the domain in the domain tree. I ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2009 - 09:04 pm ET

[Samba] got stuck with replacing win2k DC with samba4 DC

Hello all, I have tried several times to replace an old Windows 2000 domain controller with a samba4 dc but failed to do so. here is what I did/tried: - copied the old DC and DNS (bind9) to a vmware machine - fixed some replication issues I had ...

Message posted on the November 01st, 2011 - 05:10 am ET

[Samba] The RPC server is unavailable

I have used the Samba4 Howto as a guide. I am using OpenSuse 11.3 and the Samba version is: 4.0.0alpha15-GIT-61f7d7c. Everything was working as intended after installation. I did a fresh install on another computer of Windows 7. Joined my freshly ...

Message posted on the January 26th, 2011 - 10:30 am ET

Transitioning to Win2k8 AD - Adprep failing

We are trying to transition from a Win2k3 AD (single DC) to a Win2k8 AD by adding a Win2k8 server to the domain (ie running DCPromo). First we ran what we believed to be the updated version of ADPrep (with four options including forestprep, etc...) ...

Message posted on the July 21st, 2009 - 09:07 am ET

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