windows 2008 server problem

shiva.akula

Pardon me as I'm confused by this one myself. I've set up plenty of the Server 2008 AD's in test environments, and never had this error. Starts off just fine, install the ADDS role and then run DCPROMO. It's during this I get the error: "The local Administrator account becomes the domain Administrator account when you create a new domain. The new domain cannot be created because the local Administrator account password does not meet requirements. Currently, a password is not required for the local Administrator account. We recommend that you use the net user command -line tool with the /passwordreg:yes option to require a password for this account before you create the new domain; otherwise, a password will not be required for the domain Administrator account." What in the heck? I KNOW my password meets the requirements, but even if I change it to something very very complex it doesn't seem to care and throw's the same error during DCPROMO. I've even disabled complexity requirements in local security policy but this seems to have no effect. I'm at my wits end, any suggestions?

A shiva ramakrishan

nandrasec

The password I was using met all of the above requirements. Following your post, I tried re-setting the password to one that included an "!" and an "*" in addition to lowercase and uppercase alpha and numeric characters. I then shut the computer down and re-started, and at the command prompt, typed the net user Administrator <password> /passwordreq:yes command. Following this sequence, I again attempted to run dcpromo, and it worked! I'm sure that each password I was using met the requirements (since I've changed it, I'll post the one I was using on my first effort--it was "GardenBuyer1". It has uppercase, lowercase and numeric characters, and a sufficient number of characters, and no duplication of the username. I'm sure it meets the posted criteria.) I don't intend to experiment any further, but my guess is that I had never tried the net user command between the Active Domain Services install and the dcpromo wizard. My recollection is that in each prior case, I had uninstalled ADS, then typed the command and started again to add the ADS role. If my guess is correct, the key is to type the command after installing ADS, but before running dcpromo.

atul484

By default Windows 2000 Server installs as a member
server, if you want to upgrade the server to a
domain controller you must install Active Directory.
The installation of Active Directory is simple, but
you need to keep in mind some important
considerations prior to installing. If the server
is going to also perform as a DHCP, and or, DNS
server you want to make sure that you configure
these services after the Active Directory
installation (DNS is configured during the
installation). Ok, having said that, you can move
on to installing the Active Directory, and avoid
some of the easy mistakes.