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Accidentally ran sysprep/resealed a Win 2003 Svr Domain Controller

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akshatp

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Any way to get the DC going again? Right now when I boot up it says "Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: directory services cannot start"

And then says please click ok to shutdown

Am I screwed here? I really dont want to re-install W2K3 and go through the long process of doing all the driver installs, windows updates, etc.
 
I think you'll have to rebuild. You may also have issues with AD and DNS now since the DC was not properly removed from the forest/domain. Hopefully, it was not holding any FSMO roles or you were able to successfully sieze the roles.
 
There is no backup.. its a test box at home but I just didnt want to go through the painstaking work of re-installing the OS, applying patches, etc. and then doing the same thing for the VM that I had running on the same box lol.

Guess thats what Ill be doing this weekend...
 
Use a virtualization product that supports snapshots. Build the 2003 box with drivers, patches etc and then snap it before the dcpromo. NEVER EVER snap a domain controller. But at least this way, you can easily revert to a fully patched box, pre-dcpromo.
 
Originally posted by: DrGreen2007
shouldnt have to do much on the VM, just remove from the domain, then add it back once you rebuild your DC
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The VM's are on the same partition as the DC was on.. so i lost it when i re-sealed the DC. since i cant log in, i cant access those VM files 🙁
 
Originally posted by: stash
Use a virtualization product that supports snapshots. Build the 2003 box with drivers, patches etc and then snap it before the dcpromo. NEVER EVER snap a domain controller. But at least this way, you can easily revert to a fully patched box, pre-dcpromo.
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The DC was on the actual laptop OS.. not a VM 🙁
 
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