DCPROMO and Server Manager Nyerere <ayanda.madyibi[ at ]gmail.com> 05.07.2007 07:37:15 Guys, I changed an SB Server 2003 from company1.local to company2.local using DCPROMO and now I can no longer use Server Manager Console. Any reason for this or what can I do to re-install only SM? Regards Ayanda

Re: DCPROMO and Server Manager "Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}" <sme[ at ]nevernever.lan> 05.07.2007 08:53:15 Waaah ! ....You broke it ! You can't do that on an SBServer ( as you've discovered ) It's too integrated. You'll have broken Exchange and other stuff too. ( basically anything installed that uses AD ) Having never done it ..even out of curiosity I have no idea how you'd recover apart from re-installing everything that uses AD - or even if reversing the process would work... Unless someone here has been through the process, your options may be to call PSS or flatten and re-install whichever is the lesser of the two evils for you. -- Henry Craven {SBS-MVP} "Nyerere" <ayanda.madyibi[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183621035.848002.295060[ at ]k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Guys, > > I changed an SB Server 2003 from company1.local to company2.local > using DCPROMO and now I can no longer use Server Manager Console. Any > reason for this or what can I do to re-install only SM? > > Regards > Ayanda >

Re: DCPROMO and Server Manager "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS[ at ]SPAMFREE.gmail.com> 05.07.2007 09:32:27 Henry Craven {SBS-MVP} wrote: [Quoted Text] > Waaah ! ....You broke it ! > > You can't do that on an SBServer ( as you've discovered ) > It's too integrated. You'll have broken Exchange and other stuff too. > ( basically anything installed that uses AD ) > > Having never done it ..even out of curiosity I have no idea how you'd > recover apart from re-installing everything that uses AD - or even if > reversing the process would work... > > Unless someone here has been through the process, your options may be > to call PSS or flatten and re-install whichever is the lesser of the > two evils for you. > 1) Full restore of the backup. ( I'm sure the OP has a fully verified one, right?) 2) Full Reinstall. Dcpromo down and up makes for a completely new domain sid even if reverting to the original domain name, and that's just the 'tip of the iceberg' of course. > > "Nyerere" <ayanda.madyibi[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1183621035.848002.295060[ at ]k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> Guys, >> >> I changed an SB Server 2003 from company1.local to company2.local >> using DCPROMO and now I can no longer use Server Manager Console. Any >> reason for this or what can I do to re-install only SM? >> >> Regards >> Ayanda -- /kj

Re: DCPROMO and Server Manager "Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster[ at ]picamar.co.uk> 05.07.2007 12:08:36 Nyerere wrote: [Quoted Text] >Guys, > >I changed an SB Server 2003 from company1.local to company2.local >using DCPROMO and now I can no longer use Server Manager Console. Any >reason for this or what can I do to re-install only SM? I hope you have good backups, as your server is now toast. Changing the AD domain name is a flatten-and-reinstall option. Really. Well, not quite, but the number of steps involved to do it correctly such that everything still works is so much more complicated than flatten-and-reinstall it's not even vaguely amusing, never mind funny. Your best option [to get a working server] at this point is to restore from backup to before the AD change, and then come back and explain why you want to change the name so that you can get better advice on what (if anything) to do. -- Steve Foster [SBS MVP] --------------------------------------- MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.