Mon, Jun 13 2011 23:56
bradley
Completing the SBS 2011 Standard setup after a failure during the promotion to a domain controller:
Completing the SBS 2011 Standard setup after a failure during the promotion to a domain controller:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536941
That KB came out earlier but it's time to review it again.
My first advice to anyone doing a SBS migration is to say no to updates during the install.
Repeat after me.
Just SAY NO.
When looking in the DcPromo.log, always search for “[ERROR]” from top to bottom, once you find the line, for example: “04/08/2011 10:19:41 [ERROR] Failed to install to Directory Service (5)”, then concentrate on the error code in the (), on this case 5, which translates to ACCESS_DENIED.
I find that the error logs read best from bottom to top. The errors normally pop out well from the bottom rather than from the top. Now in a dcpromo log you won't have all the logs of updates you did during the install, but the SBSsetup log sure does.
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