Re: Windows SBServer 2003-based domain controller restarts hourly

Thanks for your reply.

Will it be obvious where/how to complete the installation?
Would it be worth trying 'seizing the FSMO roles' as per

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925652
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504

or could this lead to other problems, it will only take 10 minutes and if I
am interpreting the above articles correctly it is the recommended Microsoft
solution.

Incidentally Carbonite backup was installed the day before the problem first
arose.

"Frank McCallister SBS MVP" wrote:

You have an SBCore issue. The server was not completely installed as a
Domain controller and the installation needs to be completed.

--
Frank McCallister SBS MVP
MCP Microsoft Small Business Specialist
COMPUMAC

"stephen05uk" <stephen05uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It shuts down completely but can be restarted straight away. I didn't
install
it the people who built the box installed it - I manage it. Interestingly
the
problem didn't arise until about 30 days after the serevr was fisrt
commissioned

"Frank McCallister SBS MVP" wrote:

If you ignore the warning does the Server restart? Did you do a complete
install of SBS?

--
Frank McCallister SBS MVP
MCP Microsoft Small Business Specialist
COMPUMAC

"stephen05uk" <stephen05uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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DOH! The 60 minute warning is only on the only on the 2000 boxes not
the
XP
boxes, sorry!

"stephen05uk" wrote:

This problem happens sporadically giving a 60 minute warning only on
the
XP
boxes, the clients are a mixture of XP pro and 2000 pro machines.
The problem appears to be documented here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925652
and the solution appears to be documented here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504

There are no other servers in the domain, though in the past the
network
has
been connected via VPN to a network containing another SBS server,
this
still
happens from time to time but the problem occurs when the VPN is
disconnected.

I must confess that I am a little out of my depth here, but it seems
to
me
that I need to seize all five FSMO roles using ntdsutil.exe. If I do
this
and
it is not the solution, can I 'break' anything? Any help / suggestions
would
be gratefully received. Thanks.

.

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