Hi all, I have created the following LAB VM1 using workstation 9.0 on my local desktop (PC1) Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1, 2GB RAM, 1 CPU Roles/functions as a Primary DC and Exchange 2010 SP2 AD and Exchange work correctly on PC1 I copied all the files from PC1\vm\DC1\*.* to PC2\vm\DC1\*.* and then opened the VM1 from PC2 and I choose "I copied it". Issue: On PC2 i am unable to open active directory users and computers. I get kerberos error messages, MMC doesn't want to load. Sorry but I havn't got the exact errors, the VM is at work. DCDiag reports messages like it can't contact the domain controller. But my question is; Even though this VM is a domain controller & exchange server (work nicely on PC1). Should I be able to just pickup the entire folder/files and copy them to PC2. Then configure the same network, start it up and it should just work ) or am I missing something Any help would be much appreciated. cheers
I know its late reply but just for info if you are changing IP of DC with DNS & EX role then run ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /registerdns dcdiag /fix restart netlogon service to write changes to DNS. nltest /dsregdns You was getting error coz dns was not aware\replicated changed IP.....