Active Directory installation failed

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Mark Olczyk

I had a server that was my GC, this server had a major hardware problem and
before I shut it down, I promoted another server in my domain to be GC, now
when I want to join any other server to be a domain controller in Active
Directory, and I get this:



This Active Directory installation requires domain configuration changes,
but whether those changes have been made on the domain controller
laxur.campus.edu is undetermined. The installation process has quit.

"The system cannot find the file specified"



Please help, how can I fix this?
 
That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with a problem with the
global catalog. I would suspect that the FSMO roles are not being
recognized.

If you install the Support Tools and run NETDOM QUERY FSMO does it
recognize the role holders?
How many DCs do you have in this environment?
Who holds the FSMO roles and are they being recognized?

If the machines that had the hardware problems held FSMO roles and they
were not transferred successfully, you will need to seize those roles to
one of the remaining DCs to have them recreated.

255504 Using Ntdsutil.exe to Seize or Transfer FSMO Roles to a Domain
Controller
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

If that other machine did not successfully demote, you will also need to
perform a metadata cleanup on an existing domain controller to remove its
metadata information from Active Directory.

216498 HOW TO: Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216498

David Pharr, (e-mail address removed)

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| I had a server that was my GC, this server had a major hardware problem
and
| before I shut it down, I promoted another server in my domain to be GC,
now
| when I want to join any other server to be a domain controller in Active
| Directory, and I get this:
|
|
|
| This Active Directory installation requires domain configuration changes,
| but whether those changes have been made on the domain controller
| laxur.campus.edu is undetermined. The installation process has quit.
|
| "The system cannot find the file specified"
|
|
|
| Please help, how can I fix this?
|
|
|
 
Hello Mark,

You will have to seize all fsmo roles from the old DC to the DC that
replaced it. Here is the article that will walk you through the seizure
process:
255504 Using Ntdsutil.exe to Seize or Transfer FSMO Roles to a Domain
Controller
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

Thank You.

Diana.

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Try running this command to determine which domain controller holds the FSMO
roles, if the old DC held any of them, you will need to seize the roles:

netdom query fsmo

Most likely, the infrastructure master is no longer available on the domain.
To seize the roles use this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504
 
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