{"id":926,"date":"2012-11-14T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2012-11-14T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T09:22:26","slug":"cannot-promote-server-as-domain-controller-server-2012-migratation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/cannot-promote-server-as-domain-controller-server-2012-migratation","title":{"rendered":"Cannot promote server as domain controller &#8211; Server 2012 Migratation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-927 img-responsive\" title=\"microsoft-Windows-Server-2012[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/microsoft-Windows-Server-20121-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>When migrating an SBS 2003 box to Server 2012, when it runs through the migration wizard it displays the error<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Cannot promote server as domain controller<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Upon checking the logs and the Sites and Services it creates Domain Controller but the NTDS connector are missing<\/p>\r\n<p>Upon checking the settings for the SBS 2003 box , the primary DNS server for the box had been set ( by another company ) to the Gateway\/Router instead of itself ( Either 127.0.0.1 or the Local IP of the Server ). I&#8217;m not sure how the Domain had been working before hand , but after setting this to the correct value I retried the Wizard and the wizard ran through and completed\u00a0successfully.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When migrating an SBS 2003 box to Server 2012, when it runs through the migration wizard it displays the error Cannot promote server as domain controller Upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[524,525],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-cannot-promote-server-as-domain-controller","tag-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}