The error "cannot find the specified active directory object: winnt://<server>/<user>,user" and "program file folder creation or environment variables setting did not finish successfully" appears during the installation of Essential Business Server 2008 on the Security Server if a group policy exists in your current environment that renames the local administrator account name.
The GPO setting under "Windows Settings\Security Settings\Security Options" called "Accounts:Rename administrator account" that enforces this must be turned off for the domain, because at the time of the EBS installation the security server is located in the Computers container.
Unfortunatly, by the time this error occurs you can do nothing about it apart from format the hard disks and reinstall the server!!!
Labels: 2008, ebs 2008, windows
permalink posted by Brian Reid : 2:23 PM
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The Essential Business Server installation steps for the Management Server might require you to insert the Prerequisite Planning Tools DVD into the Infrastructure Master to run schemaupgradetool.exe. What if you do not have a DVD drive on the current infrastructure master?
Then copy over the network the SCHEMAUPGRADETOOL.EXE, MMSNETWORKINGNATIVE.DLL and the entire ADPREP folder. Then run SCHEMAUPGRADETOOL from the command line on the infrastructure master.
This takes no paramaters to run, and takes a few seconds to start up. Though when I ran it on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 infrastructure master it popped up an empty dialog box with an OK button and nothing else - this though seems to indicate success and the Management Server installation can now continue.
Labels: 2008, ebs 2008, windows
permalink posted by Brian Reid : 9:42 AM
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