
Microsoft MVP Datacenter Managementĭisclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights. Then stand up the new one, patch it fully, license it, join existing domain, add active directory domain services, promote it also making it a GC (recommended), transferįSMO roles over (optional), transfer pdc emulator role (optional), use dcdiag / repadmin tools to again verify health, when all is good you can decommission / demote old one. The work-around is to build a new one using dcdiag / repadmin tools to verify healthĬorrecting all errors found before starting. i have a purchased copy of server 2019 standard, loaded onto my physical server, activation key entered and accepted and then hyper service added to the roles, its the only role added to the physical server.

apparently some stuff doesn't work with the built in admin account.Ĭonversion from evaluation to full after domain controller promotion is not supported. Using another account than the admin account worked fine. Line didn't work despite it saying product key installed. Nothing happened when I click change product key, as well as the command

In my case the problem was with Windows Server 2019 - using the built in Administrator Account after promoting the Server to a DC I couldn't activate it with the built in Admin account.
