Problems Promoting Windows 2008 Core to Domain Controller

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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.
 
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.
>
 
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.
 
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