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Just installing new 2003 R2 DC at a site and the XP machines are not obtaining any GPOs. Events appear like below and software doesnt install even though the PC is in AD, AD is replicating as the pc name is visiable on other DCs.<br />
1) Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the active directory (0x8007054b). &nbsp;The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.<br />
&nbsp; Enrollment will not be performed.<br />
2) Could not execute the following script \\DOMAIN.local\SysVol\DOMA<wbr />IN.local\s<wbr />cripts\Cha<wbr />ngeAdminPW<wbr />\ChangeAdm<wbr />inistrator<wbr />PW.bat. The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.<br />
3) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted. <br />
Any Ideas?<br />

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Just installing new 2003 R2 DC at a site and the XP machines are not obtaining any GPOs. Events appear like below and software doesnt install even though the PC is in AD, AD is replicating as the pc name is visiable on other DCs.
1) Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the active directory (0x8007054b).  The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
  Enrollment will not be performed.
2) Could not execute the following script \\DOMAIN.local\SysVol\DOMAIN.local\scripts\ChangeAdminPW\ChangeAdministratorPW.bat. The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
3) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted. 
Any Ideas?


Automatic certificate enrollment -  The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.