Re: active directory will not stahttp://www.microsoft.com/wn3/aspx/prt

From DSRM change the registry key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions\ProductType from
LanmanNT to ServerNT

On reboot you will be able to log on to the box in normal mode however
Active Directory will not start. From there you can promote the machine into
a fake domain, and then demote to completely remove Active Directory. Once
demoted you can then promote back up into your production domain. You must
go through the promotion to a fake domain otherwise Active Directory will
never be healthy.

or.... reformat :)
--
Brian Delaney, MCSE


"Burley" wrote:

To all:

Ran checkdisk without problem on the balance of the drive. Don't know what
caused the corruption, could have been a number of things I suspect. Don't
have another DC or sys state to recover from, so the only answer is to
rebuild the DC, but here's the 25 cent question - how can you do that when
you cannot load active directory? Trying to remove AD when you can only get
into directory services restore mode isn't possible. Any thoughts???

"Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote:

You have two options

1. Rebuild DC, promote from another DC that is ok.
2. Rebuild DC, recover systemstate.

Other than that, you are done.


--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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Burley wrote:
Running Windows 2003 server and sometime over the weekend the ntds.nis
database was corrupted. We are unable to boot into active directory on our
PDC (our only domain controller) and any of the ntdsutil utilities that we
attempt fail with a JetEngine initialization error. We cannot even perform a
lossy repair!! Any help would be appreciated as we are desparate.




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