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"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...
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?
adriansheedy did you ever figure this out? I'm facing the same issue now...
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...
- 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.- Thanks a lot.
I got the same issue and I contacted yesterday the Microsoft Support. Luckily, try different diagnostic approach I got an error than lead me to this thread.
After creating the msDs-PasswordsettingsContainer object, everything turned on.
Enrico Giacomin.
adriansheedy Thats a shame, I've got a server with the same issues and I've been banging my head against a wall for 4 days now trying to sort it.
