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Thank you for this reply. &nbsp;I'm going to keep the question open for just a bit longer. &nbsp;Will be working on this late on Friday. &nbsp;Thank you again!
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Thank you for this reply.  I'm going to keep the question open for just a bit longer.  Will be working on this late on Friday.  Thank you again!

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Bringing up a new 2012 R2 server at one of our off site facilities. &nbsp;During the AD installation we lost all communication to the parent domain. &nbsp;Unfortunately the server was rebooted during the night. &nbsp;This morning started the AD installation again and it stalled at the replicating schema screen which is where it was when the communication dropped yesterday. &nbsp;At my parent domain I don't see any entries for the new child domain. &nbsp;<br />
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Need some direction on where to start to unwind this issue.
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Bringing up a new 2012 R2 server at one of our off site facilities.  During the AD installation we lost all communication to the parent domain.  Unfortunately the server was rebooted during the night.  This morning started the AD installation again and it stalled at the replicating schema screen which is where it was when the communication dropped yesterday.  At my parent domain I don't see any entries for the new child domain.  

Need some direction on where to start to unwind this issue.

Lost Connection during Child Domain Installation

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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