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DSC with xActiveDirectory: Verification of prerequisites for Domain Controller promotion failed


I'm starting to become a big fan of "Desired State Configuration" (DSC). Great work so far, guys!

Im using the "xActiveDirectory" script (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xActiveDirectory-f2d573f3) published a few weeks ago. As soon as the VM is deployed in Azure, I get the following error:

Job {860932CF-ECE2-11E4-80BB-0003FF54BC14} : This event indicates that a non-terminating error was thrown when DSCEngine was executing Set-TargetResource on MSFT_xADDomain DSC resource. FullyQualifiedErrorId is Test.VerifyDcPromoCore.DCPromo.General.77,Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Deployment.PowerShell.Commands.InstallADDSForestCommand. ErrorMessage is Verification of prerequisites for Domain Controller promotion failed. The specified argument 'DataBasePath' was not recognized.

As I can see so far, my machine has been become a DC so I dont understand this error. I really appreciate any help.

Thank you.


Solution

  • You need to make sure the domain credentials you are passing to the DSC resource are correct. I've seen this issue and have confirmed that if I don't pass the correct $DomainAdministratorCredential I receive the same error.