I met a difficult situation while setting up a DC for a new forest in Windows Server 2012 . ADDS has been setup and promoted the server as the Domain Controller for the new forest/domain. But none of the AD tools were not able to open, says a DNS error always similar to the one showed here
When digging in to the machine, error messages found on the Event viewer are:
The DFS Replication service failed to contact domain controller to access configuration information. Replication is stopped. The service will try again during the next configuration polling cycle, which will occur in 60 minutes. This event can be caused by TCP/IP connectivity, firewall, Active Directory Domain Services, or DNS issues.
Additional Information:
Error: 1355 (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.)Active Directory Domain Services was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog.
Additional Data
Error value:
1355 The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
Internal ID:
3200e24User Action:
Make sure a global catalog is available in the forest, and is reachable from this domain controller. You may use the nltest utility to diagnose this problem.The DFS Replication service failed to contact domain controller to access configuration information. Replication is stopped. The service will try again during the next configuration polling cycle, which will occur in 60 minutes. This event can be caused by TCP/IP connectivity, firewall, Active Directory Domain Services, or DNS issues.
Additional Information:
Error: 1355 (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.)
The errors indicated that there is a problem with DFS and sysvol seems to be not accessible.
The solution seems to be very simple
Go to Registry editor and open the key SysvolReady at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters
If the value of the key is 0 change it to 1. If the value is 1 change it to 0 and ‘Accept’, again change to 1 and accept. Exit registry editor.
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I setup a domain controller using an eval version of Server 2012. I rolled this server out to a production environment while I waited for my server licenses to arrive.
I soon realized that you cannot activate an eval license if you have already run DCPROMO. After demoting/promoting my server I was getting this error (among many others).
I cannot express how happy I am that I found your blog. I was preparing to….??
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Hello Steve Ellis,
Are you saying that my article has solved your difficulty? Or are you looking for more help?
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Worked like a charm! I was stressing out BIG time!! I followed all the steps from migrating to 2012 STD from 2003 SBS and then ran into this issue after demoting the old server. THANKS!
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Definitely, it can be a bug. MS may taken care on the next patch release
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@ManU – I can’t help but post yet another heartfelt THANK YOU for your answer. I just wish I had found it a week ago. I’m not quite sure what the fancy wizards are good for if one still has to mess with the registry.
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Thank you very much for this fix! I had promoted/demoted a couple of times due to the error message, thinking I had missed a step. After double/triple checking my steps nothing was missed, and the error message still existed. Came across your fix, and BAM! Up and running.
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thanks. but can you tell the reason why did the value changed
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Simply a Bug in the program may be
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I have been using Hyper-V replicas to create a test environment. I couldn’t get the DC to actually perform as a DC. I couldn’t connect to AD DS. Made the change that you suggested and now it works.
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just about to perform DC migration tonight, thought this issue relate to new DC was setup within current DC domain.
I was so wrong. many thanks friends.
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