Hello again!
I've taken it upon myself to build a development domain (a.k.a child domain) using Win2k8R2. Here's a rundown of the current parent domain:
Both DC's have AD, DNS, static IP's, etc...
I have ran the Security Configuration Wizard on both servers, then ran a dcdiag script to ensure there were no issues afterwards. *There are no known issues between the two DC's in the parent domain*
When I run DCPromo on the new server (Test) to create the child domain, I set all the configuration settings without an issue, but then at the end I will receive a message that the RPC Server is unavailable, the server will reboot and the child domain will
be created. Unfortunately, DNS delegation on the parent domain will not be created automatically (due to the RPC error). I can manually set the delegation on the parent domain, but only by IP not FQDN (this worries me)
When I attempt to ping Test from the parent domain, it is unable to find the host. If I ping either of the domain controllers in the parent domain, I can resolve without issue. Hopefully this is a start. I don't know how else to explain it.
Chris Roberts IT Professional CompTIA A+, MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration