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Hi Krzysztof,<br />
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I checked the group membership of the built in Administrator account and it is a member of Enterprise Admins. I also read the Technet Article you referred me to, all those conditions are also met. <br />
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Anything else I can check... This has me baffled...
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Hi Krzysztof,

I checked the group membership of the built in Administrator account and it is a member of Enterprise Admins. I also read the Technet Article you referred me to, all those conditions are also met.

Anything else I can check... This has me baffled...

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hey DuganproIT, &nbsp;were you able to get this resolved?<br />
i am running into the same problem. logged in on the original domain admin account
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hey DuganproIT,  were you able to get this resolved?
i am running into the same problem. logged in on the original domain admin account

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I Just installed Windows Server 2008 R2 into an existing Windows Server 2003 Domain. I installed AD DS on the new 2008 R2 server and made it the Schema Master. I ran the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) and I get this message.<br />
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<b></b>The AD DS BPA should be able to collect data about the name of the forest from the domain controller <i></i>domain controller<i></i>. What is it telling me? And how can I resolve the problem?
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I Just installed Windows Server 2008 R2 into an existing Windows Server 2003 Domain. I installed AD DS on the new 2008 R2 server and made it the Schema Master. I ran the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) and I get this message.

The AD DS BPA should be able to collect data about the name of the forest from the domain controller domain controller. What is it telling me? And how can I resolve the problem?

ADDSBPA unable to collect data forest

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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.