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DCPROMO fails due to ADPREP not being run - but it has

Hi

I have a W2K domain. 5 DC's in 4 sites - 2 in main, 1 in each of others - all W2K SP4. We do not use Exchange

I have a new windows 2003 server that i want to promote to a domain controller.


I have run adprep /forsestprep, adprep /domainprep and adprep /domainprep gpprep on the the primary DC.
They completed and have replicated to all other DC's - i verified this with the help of the following document... http://www.msresource.net/content/view/41/47

I have used this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325379/ to run dcdiag and repadmin tests and all work

I cannot re-run adprep as it says it as already been run.

My problem is perfectly described in this article... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278875/ symptom 1

Relevant section of DCPROMO.log follows - \windows\debug\dcpromo.log
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] Starting Active Directory installation
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] Validating user supplied options
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] Determining a site in which to install
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] Examining an existing Active Directory forest
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] Error - The Active Directory Installation Wizard cannot continue because the forest is not prepared for installing Windows Server 2003. Use the Adprep command-line tool to prepare both the forest and the domain. For more information about using the Adprep, see Active Directory Help. (8467)
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] NtdsInstall for DEUTZUK1 returned 8467
07/14 11:11:41 [INFO] DsRolepInstallDs returned 8467
07/14 11:11:41 [ERROR] Failed to install to Directory Service (8467)
07/14 11:11:42 [INFO] Starting service NETLOGON
07/14 11:11:42 [INFO] Configuring service NETLOGON to 2 returned 0
07/14 11:11:42 [INFO] The attempted domain controller operation has completed
07/14 11:11:42 [INFO] DsRolepSetOperationDone returned 0


I really dont know what to do next. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Does the primary DC you ran adprep on actually hold the schema master and infrastructure FSMO roles?  I have alwasy run them in the right place but *assume* it will tell you if you are not on the correct DC....

Steve
Sorry I think I misread this one. Apologies.
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i ran the aprep you suggested mass2612 and it has run! where the previous one wouldn't re-run, updating my schema from version 30 to 31.

yes dragon-it, it is the schema and infrastructure master


i think the problem was i used a single disc version of 2003 initially where as the new server comes with 2 discs - did not resister there are different versions of adprep

i assume i still also need to re-run adprep /domainperp?

is there is an easy way to verify this version of forestprep and the version of domain prep have run correctly and replicated around the domain?

thanks
problem solved

thanks mass2612
Ah, didn't realise it was R2.