Re: DCPROMO and Server Manager

Henry Craven {SBS-MVP} wrote:
Waaah ! ....You broke it !

You can't do that on an SBServer ( as you've discovered )
It's too integrated. You'll have broken Exchange and other stuff too.
( basically anything installed that uses AD )

Having never done it ..even out of curiosity I have no idea how you'd
recover apart from re-installing everything that uses AD - or even if
reversing the process would work...

Unless someone here has been through the process, your options may be
to call PSS or flatten and re-install whichever is the lesser of the
two evils for you.


1) Full restore of the backup. ( I'm sure the OP has a fully verified one,
right?)

2) Full Reinstall.

Dcpromo down and up makes for a completely new domain sid even if reverting
to the original domain name, and that's just the 'tip of the iceberg' of
course.



"Nyerere" <ayanda.madyibi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1183621035.848002.295060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Guys,

I changed an SB Server 2003 from company1.local to company2.local
using DCPROMO and now I can no longer use Server Manager Console. Any
reason for this or what can I do to re-install only SM?

Regards
Ayanda

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/kj


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