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fernandomichels
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Oct 26, 2020

"The security database has not been started" after promote new DC

Hi, I have two DC with W2K12 and W2K16. Recently, I've promoted a new server W2K19 as a domain controller. All the process was successfully executed and after the first reboot, I can't do an intera...
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adriansheedy
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Dec 09, 2020

fernandomichels Hi Fernando.

 

We have the same problem on a customer's domain. We went through weeks of support with MS to no avail. Did you sort it out?

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    MichaelMcClintock
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    Sep 21, 2021

    adriansheedy did you ever figure this out? I'm facing the same issue now...

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      adriansheedy
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      Sep 21, 2021

      MichaelMcClintock Sorry no I have no useful direction for you. MS Support was similarly unable to fix the issue. Their final recommendation was to rebuild from scratch. Grrrrr...

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        themoblin
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 05, 2021
        Finally got this sorted. It turns out that during the domain functional level raise operation, the "Password Settings Container" object did not get created.

        I used ADSIEdit to create this manually (object type is msDs-PasswordsettingsContainer and the DN for the object is: CN=Password Settings Container,CN=System,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local

        Hope this helps someone in the future.

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