I am attempting to setup a standalone Windows 2008(R2) server with Active Directory Domain Services. This install is purely for development purposes.
I have installed the OS just fine, and I been through and added ADDS role which in turn add the DNS role. Everything installs just fine and I can run dcpromo which appears to complete successfully, however after the required reboot I can login using the new domain admin credentials but the event log reports various issues with the ADDS service and I am unable to open any of the related management interfaces.
Log Name: Directory Service
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService
Computer: computer.domain.local
The local domain controller could not connect with the following domain controller hosting the following directory partition to resolve distinguished names.
Domain controller:
Directory partition:
domain.local
As this install was for development purposes, I was advised to use .local, although I have now run through the setup with various different configurations but I always hit the same issue.
Looking at other posts, I have tried:
dcdiag /e /fix
This returns the following message:
Ldap search capability attribute search failed on server conputername, return value = 81
Not sure if this is a clue to anything?
I am fairly sure this is DNS related as it seems the server cannot be found, I can confirm that my NIC is looking at 127.0.0.1 as it's primary DNS server.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
UPDATE:
Digging deeper, i've found this event error?
The DNS server was unable to create the built-in directory partition