BOOTH UP AND SHUT DOWN SPEED OF WIN2003 SERVER

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Josh Davis

Hi all. I have a windows 2003 server running on a Athlon 64 based
computer. Prior to promoting it to a domain controller it booted
pretty quickly and shutdown quickly.

I have notised since I promoted it that it is taking on average 5
times longer to boot up to the login prompt. Is there any particular
reason why this should be. I have not yet populated AD with accounts
as of yet.

Thanks in advance... Josh.
 
The first thing that springs to mind is that you have DNS incorrectly
configured, and that it's stalling at the applying computer settings
section. This is because it cannot find a DC to pull the GPO from.

This machine must point to the internal, authorative DNS server for the AD
namespace (which is usually itself) for DNS.

netdiag and dcdiag are the best things to run and analyse in this instance.
They are support tools.

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Paul Williams

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Thanks, I will check the DNS to see if its the problem..

I appreciate your insight..

Josh
 
Should it turn out to be DNS related (which is likely
as Pt says) then perhaps this will help:


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DNS for AD
1) Dynamic for the zone supporting AD
2) All internal DNS clients NIC\IP properties must specify SOLELY
that internal, dynamic DNS server (set.)
3) DCs and even DNS servers are DNS clients too -- see #2
4) If you have more than one Domain, every DNS server must
be able to resolve ALL domains (either directly or indirectly)

netdiag /fix

....or maybe:

dcdiag /fix

(Win2003 can do this from Support tools):
nltest /dsregdns /server:DC-ServerNameGoesHere
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q260371/

Ensure that DNS zones/domains are fully replicated to all DNS
servers for that (internal) zone/domain.

Also useful may be running DCDiag on each DC, sending the
output to a text file, and searching for FAIL, ERROR, WARN.

Single Label domain zone names are a problem Google:
[ "SINGLE LABEL" domain names DNS 2000 | 2003 microsoft: ]
 
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