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thanks for the replies guys, Im driving up there saturday with a new server. We are just going to go ahead and do an in place upgrade and refresh the hardware and upgrade from 2k3 to 2k8 while we're at. To answer the question I thought I had a system state back up via DPM but that failed to recover. Because they need to be open for business Friday and Saturday we are just going to let it ride until the weekend. Big problem with not having a tested DR solution.
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thanks for the replies guys, Im driving up there saturday with a new server. We are just going to go ahead and do an in place upgrade and refresh the hardware and upgrade from 2k3 to 2k8 while we're at. To answer the question I thought I had a system state back up via DPM but that failed to recover. Because they need to be open for business Friday and Saturday we are just going to let it ride until the weekend. Big problem with not having a tested DR solution.

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hi experts<br />
we have a 2003 remote domain controller that is showing &quot;directory services cannot start&quot; error 0xc00002e1. We are not able to load windows normally. We can remotely access it if someone on site selects safe mode. I have gone through ms kb article 258062 and I am at the point where the ms kb is recommending to reinstall AD. Problem is this server is a 7 hour drive and I want to do this remotely. Any suggestions, guides or recommendations before I run dcpromo ?
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hi experts
we have a 2003 remote domain controller that is showing "directory services cannot start" error 0xc00002e1. We are not able to load windows normally. We can remotely access it if someone on site selects safe mode. I have gone through ms kb article 258062 and I am at the point where the ms kb is recommending to reinstall AD. Problem is this server is a 7 hour drive and I want to do this remotely. Any suggestions, guides or recommendations before I run dcpromo ?

reinstall active directory remotely ?

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

Microsoft server applications are those applications developed specifically, but not necessarily exclusively, on the Windows Server platform. In addition to well-known products like SQL Server, Exchange, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Dynamics, Forefront, Lync and Sharepoint, they include applications like Skype, BizTalk, Hyper-V, Groove and Commerce Server. Server applications are managed with the Microsoft System Center.

Microsoft Server Apps

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