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    Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

      @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

      @Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

      Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

      Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

      Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

      Correct

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
        last edited by

        @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

        Already checked the health of the AD?

        He can't login.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @black3dynamite
          last edited by

          @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

          Already checked the health of the AD?

          He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
            last edited by

            @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

            @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

            Already checked the health of the AD?

            He can't login.

            Because there is no AD 🙂

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

              @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

              Already checked the health of the AD?

              How?

              https://activedirectorypro.com/dcdiag-check-domain-controller-health/

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
                last edited by

                how about booting to last known good?

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  I assume this client is going to be virtualizing this workload?

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre
                    last edited by

                    Not asking to be dumb... but have you checked to make sure the AD services and DNS services are booting up?

                    Double check to see if the DNS settings in the network card got b0rked?

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                    • black3dynamiteB
                      black3dynamite @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                      @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                      Already checked the health of the AD?

                      He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                      Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @dafyre
                        last edited by

                        @dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                        Not asking to be dumb... but have you checked to make sure the AD services and DNS services are booting up?

                        Double check to see if the DNS settings in the network card got b0rked?

                        He cannot login. The local administrator account gets disabled on windows domain controllers once they are created.

                        He could (as @Dashrender mentioned) try to boot to "last known good" but that may not work. He might be able to do a boot into the domain controller recovery option though.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                          @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                          @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                          Already checked the health of the AD?

                          He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                          Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

                          You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @black3dynamite
                            last edited by

                            @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                            @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                            @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                            Already checked the health of the AD?

                            He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                            Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

                            I did sorta kinda ask that above - I was unaware that 2012 Essentials booted to a CLI login interface.

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                              @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                              @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                              @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                              Already checked the health of the AD?

                              He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                              Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

                              You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

                              This is why I asked if there are more servers - if there is an additional AD, auth could maybe be done off that. But if nothing can authenticate, he's just screwed.

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                              • dafyreD
                                dafyre @DustinB3403
                                last edited by dafyre

                                @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                @dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                Not asking to be dumb... but have you checked to make sure the AD services and DNS services are booting up?

                                Double check to see if the DNS settings in the network card got b0rked?

                                He cannot login. The local administrator account gets disabled on windows domain controllers once they are created.

                                He could (as @Dashrender mentioned) try to boot to "last known good" but that may not work. He might be able to do a boot into the domain controller recovery option though.

                                He just said he has CLI access to the system.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                  @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                  @Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                  Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

                                  Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

                                  Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

                                  Correct

                                  @dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                    @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                    @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                    @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                    @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                    Already checked the health of the AD?

                                    He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                                    Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

                                    You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

                                    There is no AD DC running, even the DC itself doesn't have login capability.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      At this point the router failed, so there is no access to anything anymore.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                        last edited by

                                        @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                        @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                        @Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                        Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

                                        Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

                                        Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

                                        Correct

                                        @dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

                                        Correct

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                          @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                          @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                          @black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                          Already checked the health of the AD?

                                          He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

                                          Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

                                          You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

                                          This is why I asked if there are more servers - if there is an additional AD, auth could maybe be done off that. But if nothing can authenticate, he's just screwed.

                                          Correct. But sadly, just one.

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                                          • dafyreD
                                            dafyre @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            @Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            @Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

                                            Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

                                            Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

                                            Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

                                            Correct

                                            @dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

                                            Correct

                                            Does 2012 Essentials have DSRM (Directory Services Recovery Mode) ?

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