Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD
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If you have CLI access (not sure where you're getting a shell if you can't login though), can you not just do a
net user /add [AccountName] [Password] net localgroup administrators [AccountName] /addand add a local administrator account?
Log into the GUI using this new account and then diagnose from there now that you'll have access to the GUI, event viewer, etc.
You could have the user run an SC agent so you can inspect remotely (assuming the router has been fixed). -
@manxam said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
If you have CLI access (not sure where you're getting a shell if you can't login though), can you not just do a
net user /add [AccountName] [Password] net localgroup administrators [AccountName] /addand add a local administrator account?
Log into the GUI using this new account and then diagnose from there now that you'll have access to the GUI, event viewer, etc.
You could have the user run an SC agent so you can inspect remotely (assuming the router has been fixed).ffs
Please understand that when a Windows server is promoted to a domain controller, the server no longer uses the local account (Security Accounts Manager [SAM]) database during normal operations to store users and groups. When the promotion is complete, the new domain controller has a copy of the Active Directory database in which it stores users, groups, and computer accounts. The SAM database is present, but it is inaccessible when the server is running in Normal mode. The only time that the local SAM database is used is when you boot into Directory Services Restore mode or the Recovery Console.
If this new domain controller is the first domain controller in a new domain, the local SAM database that the new domain controller contained as a stand-alone server is migrated to the Active Directory database that is created during the promotion. All of the local user accounts that the local SAM database contained when it had been a stand-alone server are migrated from the local SAM database to the Active Directory database. In addition, any permissions that had been assigned to the local users, such as, NTFS permissions, are retained when the users are migrated to the Active Directory database.
As a result, you cannot create any local user account on a domain controller.
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wooo - had no idea that previously created users would be migrated into AD like that. weird.
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@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
dea that previously created users would be migrated into AD like that. weird.
Yep
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What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
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@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
I would hope they wouldn't restore back to bare metal (if they have backups) and instead restore to a VM.
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@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
Two day download of their backup!
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
I would hope they wouldn't restore back to bare metal (if they have backups) and instead restore to a VM.
They have no hardware for doing a VM.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
Two day download of their backup!
Are they using Amazon Glacier?!
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
I would hope they wouldn't restore back to bare metal (if they have backups) and instead restore to a VM.
They have no hardware for doing a VM.
Not even a desktop to setup as a hypervisor?
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
Two day download of their backup!
Are they using Amazon Glacier?!
The issue is their network connection.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
What's the latest @scottalanmiller ? Did you guys have to restore from backup and hope for the best?
I would hope they wouldn't restore back to bare metal (if they have backups) and instead restore to a VM.
They have no hardware for doing a VM.
Not even a desktop to setup as a hypervisor?
Nope. Everything is in use for the clinic.
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That's rough.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
That's rough.
Very
