Problems Promoting Windows 2008 Core to Domain Controller

[Guest Marks70]

Hello,

 

I am not having any success trying to promote my Windows 2008 Core server to

a domain controller. Everytime I try to promote it, I get the following error:

 

"You must specify the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain in

which you want to add this additional domain controller."

 

I'm definitely specifying the domain in the unattend file. Here is the

contents of the unattend file I'm pointing to:

 

[DCINSTALL]

UserName=test.local\administrator

UserDomain=test.local

Password=Password

SiteName=Default-First-Site-Name

ReplicaOrNewDomain=replica

DatabasePath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

LogPath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

SYSVOLPath="C:\Windows\SYSVOL"

InstallDNS=yes

ConfirmGC=yes

SafeModeAdminPassword=Password

RebootOnCompletion=yes

 

I am not able to find any information on this issue and would appreciate

your help on getting this resolved. Thanks.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Problems Promoting Windows 2008 Core to Domain Controller

 

Hello Marks70,

 

Please post an unedited ipconfig /all from the core machine and the existing

DC/DNS server.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Hello,

>

> I am not having any success trying to promote my Windows 2008 Core

> server to a domain controller. Everytime I try to promote it, I get

> the following error:

>

> "You must specify the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain

> in which you want to add this additional domain controller."

>

> I'm definitely specifying the domain in the unattend file. Here is the

> contents of the unattend file I'm pointing to:

>

> [DCINSTALL]

> UserName=test.local\administrator

> UserDomain=test.local

> Password=Password

> SiteName=Default-First-Site-Name

> ReplicaOrNewDomain=replica

> DatabasePath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

> LogPath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

> SYSVOLPath="C:\Windows\SYSVOL"

> InstallDNS=yes

> ConfirmGC=yes

> SafeModeAdminPassword=Password

> RebootOnCompletion=yes

> I am not able to find any information on this issue and would

> appreciate your help on getting this resolved. Thanks.

>

[Guest Marks70]

RE: Problems Promoting Windows 2008 Core to Domain Controller

 

Thanks for responding. I was finally able to get this to work by trying some

additional statements from someone else's unattend file I found. These are

the statements I added:

 

ReplicaDomainDNSName=test.local

ReplicationSourceDC=dc1-test.test.local

 

I don't understand why these statements are needed. None of the documents I

found, including Microsoft's KB article, mention these additional statements

for adding a domain controller to an existing domain.

 

-Mark

 

"Marks70" wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I am not having any success trying to promote my Windows 2008 Core server to

> a domain controller. Everytime I try to promote it, I get the following error:

>

> "You must specify the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain in

> which you want to add this additional domain controller."

>

> I'm definitely specifying the domain in the unattend file. Here is the

> contents of the unattend file I'm pointing to:

>

> [DCINSTALL]

> UserName=test.local\administrator

> UserDomain=test.local

> Password=Password

> SiteName=Default-First-Site-Name

> ReplicaOrNewDomain=replica

> DatabasePath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

> LogPath="C:\Windows\NTDS"

> SYSVOLPath="C:\Windows\SYSVOL"

> InstallDNS=yes

> ConfirmGC=yes

> SafeModeAdminPassword=Password

> RebootOnCompletion=yes

>

> I am not able to find any information on this issue and would appreciate

> your help on getting this resolved. Thanks.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

RE: Problems Promoting Windows 2008 Core to Domain Controller

 

Hello Marks70,

 

Thanks for the feedback. The "ReplicationSourceDC" is an optional setting

according to this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754629.aspx

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> ReplicationSourceDC

>