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?

black3dynamite

Already checked the health of the AD?

scottalanmiller

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

Already checked the health of the AD?

How?

scottalanmiller

@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

DustinB3403

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

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't login.

Dashrender

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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

DustinB3403

@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/

Dashrender

how about booting to last known good?

DustinB3403

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

dafyre

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?

black3dynamite

@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?

DustinB3403

@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.

DustinB3403

@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.