Re: dcpromo failed

You could run diagnostics against the domain to see if there are any issues
with it.

If you don't have the tools installed, install them from your server install
disk.
d:\support\tools\setup.exe

Run dcdiag, netdiag and repadmin in verbose mode.
-> DCDIAG /V /C /D /E /s:yourdcname > c:\dcdiag.log
-> netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log (On each dc)
-> repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt

**Note: Using the /E switch in dcdiag will run diagnostics against ALL dc's
in the forest. If you have significant numbers of DC's this test could
generate significant detail and take a long time. You also want to take
into account slow links to dc's will also add to the testing time.

When complete search for fail, error and warning messages.


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"doh" <doh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f46tm0$kvo$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Running into wall with dcpromo.

All DCs in the forest are Server 2003 R2 32-bit

New DC to be added is Server 2003 R2 64-bit

Execute dcpromo (attempted with enterprise admin account and domain admin
account) and it goes through the entire process including replication
until:

The operation failed because:

Active Directory could not create the NTDS Settings object for this domain
controller CN=NTDS
Settings,CN=NEWDOMAINCONTROLLER,CN=Servers,CN=New-Site,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com
on the remote domain controller contosodom1.contoso.com. Ensure the
provided network credentials have sufficient permissions.

"The RPC server is unavailable."


Any clues?



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