Re: Make a member server a domain controller

Thanks for your help. HP replaced the motherboard. Everything is sweet. My server is backup and humming. Just for interest, I did restore the system state to another machine. Worked and at least allowed my users could authenticate and access other network resources. For anyone who restores the sys

Re: Make a member server a domain controller

Thanks guys. Any gotchas to watch for ? On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:13 PM, KenM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you only had a single DC I would recomend to try and recover the box > first. If that does not work rebuild the same server with same name and > restore the system state backup. If that

Re: Make a member server a domain controller

If you only had a single DC I would recomend to try and recover the box first. If that does not work rebuild the same server with same name and restore the system state backup. If that is not an option you will neeed to build a new server with the same name and follow this KB http://support.microso

Re: Make a member server a domain controller

Um - you did have more than one DC didn't you? If so just run dcpromo on the member server. If not you should be able to restore the most recent backup. You should do a full restore to bare metal. Some backup s/w can do a restore to dissimilar hardware. Kirk Kirk Woloshyn 2825 Temple Avenue S

Make a member server a domain controller

Hi My Domain controller (Win2003 R2 SP2) has died. Is there anyway to make a member server, the new DC? I have the system state data backed up? TIA ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~