I’m adding a Windows 2008 RC2 (x64… if it matters) to an existing 2003 domain.\u00c2\u00a0 Join the domain, everything’s happy, run all my forestprep & domainprep goodness… but dcpromo kept shitting itself with:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Failed to examine the active directory forest.\u00c2\u00a0 The error was: The operation cannot continue because the LDAP connect\/bind operation failed: error: 58\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The only thing I could find was this page<\/a> which suggested the local admin account password had to be the same as the forest root domain password.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I went through all the account renaming and hunting down the password (all your<\/em> admin accounts get renamed, right?\u00c2\u00a0 And no one really has that password?) I decided to just disable the local admin account on the 2008 server first.\u00c2\u00a0 It worked.\u00c2\u00a0 “WTF?O” indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m adding a Windows 2008 RC2 (x64… if it matters) to an existing 2003 domain.\u00c2\u00a0 Join the domain, everything’s happy, run all my forestprep & domainprep goodness… but dcpromo kept shitting itself with: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Failed to examine the active directory forest.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading