(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We recently purchased a brand new W2003 Small business server from
> Dell. They created a domain from our company name, which is very long.
> So we wanted to create a new Domain name to shorten it up.
>
> I recently disjoined the DC from the old domain on a w2003 small
> business server and dcpromo'd it to a new domain name, choosing new
> forrest ect. When I rebooted after it successfully installed, the
> computer hangs at "Applying computer settings". I waited over 30
> minutes last time. The DNS was to be installed on new DC and is
> pointing at itself. I can boot into safe mode and noticed in the event
> logs, it is trying to referrenced the old DNS name zone.
>
> When I dcpromo'd the original domain, I chose to delete the
> application partion and the uninstall never reported back any errors.
> How can I removed the old DNS zone refereence in AD? The problem is ,
> I can not get the system to boot into any other than safe mode WITHOUT
> Networking.
Go here and delete the reg key with that name:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DNS Server\Zones
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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