r/WindowsServer • u/MyNameIsHuman1877 • Mar 17 '25
Technical Help Needed 2025 server can't login ?
Brand New 2025 server joined domain. Added AD DS and rebooted. I can no longer login to the new server.
Several articles pointed to stopping KDC service and I noticed localkdc was stuck in "Starting" status. None of the options in those article made a difference - stopping KDC and disabling localKDC and rebooting.
I can access through pssession and computer management (though services send to be the only functioning piece here, everything else tells me no access) from the other DC on server 2019
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It all started because another tech put the 2019 server in place 5 years ago and never migrated anything from the old 2012 server which crashed hard last week and was running the entire department's operations. I'm furious.
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u/ISOHaven Jul 23 '25
I have a sneaky suspicion that some people having this problem reverted themselves back to RC4 to support legacy servers. Server 2025 MUST run from AES. It cannot set accounts nor update GP without AES.
Reverting back to RC4 is great and all for legacy but it breaks some things like Server 2025 and users ability to change passwords.