We are currently going through the process of installing windows essential business server. We successfully made it through the utility/planning of the servers with no issues.
Going through the setup process when running the environmental tools test, we receive this error code:
“An error occured when reading the name of the Active Directory FSMO role owner”
The domain controller is installed in a server 2003 environment with everything running smoothly.
Has anyone encountered this issue before or have any recommendations to go from here?
Answer
It’s possible that your FSMO roles aren’t correctly defined.
Run a DCDIAG on your existing DC and see if you get errors regarding the roles.
If you do, then follow this article to seize them over to that current DC: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;255504
Once the roles look correct (you can query for the roles using “netdom query fsmo” from the current DC and make sure the results return ok), then you should be able to proceed.
Here’s a link about WEBS 2008 and FSMO roles: http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2009/02/10/fsmo-role-distribution-for-different-windows-essential-business-server-deployment-scenarios.aspx
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