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Marcos Amado Marmolejos Paulino
Apr 18, 2018Copper Contributor
Primary domain controller (PDC) emulator cannot be contacted
Hi and thank you in advance, Migrate DC from windows server 2008 r2 (Physical) to windows 2012 server R2 (Virtual), transfer the FSMO roles, everything to perfection, but when I try to access ...
Dave Patrick
Apr 18, 2018MVP
The migration steps I'd follow would be; I'd use dcdiag / repadmin tools to verify health correcting all errors found before starting. Then I'd stand up the new guest, patch it fully, license it, join existing domain, add active directory domain services, promote it also making it a GC (recommended), transfer FSMO roles over (optional), transfer pdc emulator role (optional), use dcdiag / repadmin tools to verify health, when all is good you can decommission / demote old one. Move on to next one.
For current issues, please run;
Dcdiag /v /c /d /e /s:DCName >c:\dcdiag.log
(please replace DCName with your Domain Controller's netbios name)
ipconfig /all > C:\dc1.txt
ipconfig /all > C:\dc2.txt
then put files up on OneDrive and share a link.