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Promote DC problem
Name: emei Date: January 31, 2005 at 01:50:17 Pacific OS: 2003 CPU/Ram: Xeon 3.2G
Comment:
I got the following error when I promote a 2003 server to DC, "This Active Directory installation requires domain configuration changes, but whether these changes have been made on the domain controller xxx.abc.com is undetermined. The installation process has quit."
Name: h4x3r Date: January 31, 2005 at 08:47:41 Pacific
Reply:
are you an enterprise admin on the domain?
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Response Number 2
Name: emei Date: January 31, 2005 at 17:11:29 Pacific
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Yes I'm. Any other suggestion?
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: February 2, 2005 at 16:16:36 Pacific
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are you joining a 2000 domain? if so you have to use adprep first.
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2003_adprep.htm
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Response Number 4
Name: emei Date: February 2, 2005 at 22:55:37 Pacific
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No, I'm joining a 2003 domain. And I found that I can join win2000 server to 2003 domain but not win2003. Anyone face this problem before?
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Response Number 5
Name: seawatch Date: February 6, 2005 at 07:01:59 Pacific
Reply:
If I'm reading the last post corectly, you're trying to promote a Win3K machine, not a server, to a DC.
I don't think you can do that.
Although you could use the Win3K machine as a file server, but not as a DC.
And if you're trying to replace a current Win3k machine with a another Win3K machine to be the new DC, I thing you have to demote the old server first.
Is that what you are doing or did I miss something?
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