No desktop after running DC Promo on 2008 R2 Domain Controller
Had the pleasure of install our first 2008 R2 Domain Controller today. All went splendidly, after following through the various MS documents on how to do it and what to check beforehand. Adprep had been run over a year ago as the project was sidelined several times due to other things getting in the way. Only glitch was that after running DCPromo on the new DC it restarted and whilst I could logon I couldn't get a desktop just a normal blue wallpaper. Only option was Ctrl+Alt+Del and to log off, even task manager wouldn’t run. A reboot to safe mode with networking and all was well. So I had a look in the event logs and spotted the following error The Windows logon process has failed to spawn a user application. Application name: . Command line parameters: C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe Lots of Googling lead me to a MS kb article ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970879 ) which explains that if the Interactive and Authenticated users were not in the Local Users grou...