Well last night I decided to take a brilliant leap of faith and convert my entire second disk (data disk) from basic to dynamic. the Server 70-290 book swears up and down you can do this with no repercussions. So I open up disk management and click on the status box next to the data disk, and its 4 partitions (ok volumes). I select convert to dynamic disk, expecting a lengthy ordeal of every single directory being re-created in the dynamic disk world.
Well i guess it just changes how the partition table sees things, as it only took a few seconds to finish.
However, and you knew there had to be a however, the DNS/DC was taken off line by this operation. There really should be a big red flashing box that warns you about this when you convert the disk it resides on. It would be nice if it was mentioned in the books as well.
I got up this morning and tried logging in with one of my 'users'. No dice. Then I went to the server and popped open users and computers. What the hell! Nothing is visible! I can't look at users, computers, cant even open disk management on the server?
Well I looked at all the perms for the various folders and they seemed the same.
So I restarted the system thinking that, maybe the paths look funny to the DNS, after a restart it will work with the new version of the partition table.
It works now.
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