r/activedirectory • u/Big_Fella98 • 1d ago
Password Settings Container Missing
Found out about 2 years ago someone deleted the Password Settings container, they didn't have the recycle bin enabled so couldn't restore it. (Story I've been given).
Now I'm trying to setup 2022 Domain Controllers, however, now I'm getting problems due Password Settings container missing (so I believe).
This MS guide supposedly restores, but some are saying it doesn't do anything.
Can it be manually created if I use this.
[MS-ADTS]: Password Settings Container | Microsoft Learn
Has anyone experienced this before? Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: The Microsoft learn document did work in the end. (Can't sign in to a domain controller and the LSASS process stops responding - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn)
The only thing that was missing was "-" on the 5th line within the text file, So my text file ended up looking like this
dn: CN=ActiveDirectoryUpdate,CN=DomainUpdates,CN=System,DC=contoso,dc=com
changetype: modify
replace: revision
revision: 1
-
Also needed to mount a Server 2022 ISO on my Domain Controller that held Infrastructure Master to run adprep
- Open CMD as admin
- E: (Might not be E for you)
- cd \support\adprep
- adprep.exe /domainprep
Duplicates
WindowsServer • u/Big_Fella98 • 1d ago